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Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of Oxford Botany

Hardback

Main Details

Title Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of Oxford Botany
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stephen A. Harris
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 259,Width 237
Category/GenreBotany and plant sciences
ISBN/Barcode 9781851245611
ClassificationsDewey:580.942574
Audience
General
Illustrations 80 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Bodleian Library
Imprint Bodleian Library
Publication Date 14 May 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University. This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer's renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca - an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean - and rare plant specimens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild's Mule (the first artificially created hybrid plant). Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid botanists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants.

Author Biography

Stephen A. Harris is Druce Curator of Oxford University Herbaria.