Author: J.H. Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474467711
Category : NATURE
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Not since Lee's Flora of the Clyde Area (1933) has there been a Flora covering Glasgow. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time. It is based on the results of some fifteen years' intensive research by members of the Glasgow Natural History Society and other field botanists working under the direction of Professor Jim Dickson, Dr Peter Macpherson and Keith Watson. The survey led to discoveries of many special plants, including some thought to be extinct, and revealed sites of great scientific and conservation interest. The book also uncovers some little known aspects of the city's natural, social and economic history and their bearing on wild plants.The Changing Flora of Glasgow is generously illustrated with photographs, maps, and paintings, many of them in colour, and including several sequences to show places and perspectives as they are now and how they were some 250 years ago. It combines immaculate scholarship with an accessible, entertaining style. An essential reference work for botanists and plant lovers, it will also be a much-read possession in homes in Glasgow and surrounding areas.With The Changing Flora of Glasgow, you can:Discover how and why Glasgow's flora has changed since records began Consult a catalogue of 1500 speciesIdentify plants previously thought extinctCompare Glasgow's plant life with that of other European citiesExplore current conservation issuesEnjoy the lavish illustrations.
The Changing Flora of Glasgow
Author: J.H. Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474467711
Category : NATURE
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Not since Lee's Flora of the Clyde Area (1933) has there been a Flora covering Glasgow. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time. It is based on the results of some fifteen years' intensive research by members of the Glasgow Natural History Society and other field botanists working under the direction of Professor Jim Dickson, Dr Peter Macpherson and Keith Watson. The survey led to discoveries of many special plants, including some thought to be extinct, and revealed sites of great scientific and conservation interest. The book also uncovers some little known aspects of the city's natural, social and economic history and their bearing on wild plants.The Changing Flora of Glasgow is generously illustrated with photographs, maps, and paintings, many of them in colour, and including several sequences to show places and perspectives as they are now and how they were some 250 years ago. It combines immaculate scholarship with an accessible, entertaining style. An essential reference work for botanists and plant lovers, it will also be a much-read possession in homes in Glasgow and surrounding areas.With The Changing Flora of Glasgow, you can:Discover how and why Glasgow's flora has changed since records began Consult a catalogue of 1500 speciesIdentify plants previously thought extinctCompare Glasgow's plant life with that of other European citiesExplore current conservation issuesEnjoy the lavish illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474467711
Category : NATURE
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Not since Lee's Flora of the Clyde Area (1933) has there been a Flora covering Glasgow. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time. It is based on the results of some fifteen years' intensive research by members of the Glasgow Natural History Society and other field botanists working under the direction of Professor Jim Dickson, Dr Peter Macpherson and Keith Watson. The survey led to discoveries of many special plants, including some thought to be extinct, and revealed sites of great scientific and conservation interest. The book also uncovers some little known aspects of the city's natural, social and economic history and their bearing on wild plants.The Changing Flora of Glasgow is generously illustrated with photographs, maps, and paintings, many of them in colour, and including several sequences to show places and perspectives as they are now and how they were some 250 years ago. It combines immaculate scholarship with an accessible, entertaining style. An essential reference work for botanists and plant lovers, it will also be a much-read possession in homes in Glasgow and surrounding areas.With The Changing Flora of Glasgow, you can:Discover how and why Glasgow's flora has changed since records began Consult a catalogue of 1500 speciesIdentify plants previously thought extinctCompare Glasgow's plant life with that of other European citiesExplore current conservation issuesEnjoy the lavish illustrations.
The Changing Flora of Glasgow
Author: James Holms Dickson
Publisher: Urban and Rural Plants Through
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time.
Publisher: Urban and Rural Plants Through
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time.
Report on the Flora of Glasgow
Author: James Holms Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Flora Glottiana
Author: Thomas Hopkirk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Provisional Bibliography of Atlases, Floras and Faunas of European Cities: 1600–2014
Author: John G. Kelcey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319311204
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe. It will be of considerable interest to and should be used by a wide range of people including academics, researchers, librarians, school teachers, and people with a general interest in the natural history of cities. The bibliography is an important tool for the professions involved in the planning, design and management of high quality urban developments, including biologists, architects, urban designers, planners, consultants, medics., sociologists, engineers, politicians, landscape architects, building surveyors, agronomists and landscape managers.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319311204
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe. It will be of considerable interest to and should be used by a wide range of people including academics, researchers, librarians, school teachers, and people with a general interest in the natural history of cities. The bibliography is an important tool for the professions involved in the planning, design and management of high quality urban developments, including biologists, architects, urban designers, planners, consultants, medics., sociologists, engineers, politicians, landscape architects, building surveyors, agronomists and landscape managers.
The Glasgow Naturalist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Includes the Transactions and proceedings of the Society 1909-55 (called "third series" 1909-30).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Includes the Transactions and proceedings of the Society 1909-55 (called "third series" 1909-30).
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199563691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199563691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
The Flora of the Clyde Area. A Handbook, Etc
Author: John R. LEE (Botanist, of Glasgow.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Change in the British Flora 1987-2004
Author: Michael E. Braithwaite
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
Author: Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981777
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed—even encouraged—beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981777
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed—even encouraged—beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.