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Kew Gardens: Or, A Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Kew Gardens: Or, A Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew
Authors and Contributors      By (author) William Jackson Hooker
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreBotany and plant sciences
ISBN/Barcode 9781108065450
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 2 Plates, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 5 September 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The eminent British botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) expanded and developed the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a world-leading centre of research and conservation. Appointed its first full-time director in 1841, Hooker came to Kew following a highly successful period in the chair of botany at Glasgow University. He quickly began to extend the gardens, arranging for the building of the now famous Palm House and establishing the Museum of Economic Botany. This volume reissues Hooker's popular guides to the gardens (sixteenth edition) and to the museum (third edition), both published in 1858. Illustrated throughout, these documents reveal the areas and specimens accessible to a receptive Victorian public. Hooker's ten volumes of Icones Plantarum (1837-54) have also been reissued in this series, along with many works by his son and equally accomplished successor, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).