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This stunning book of photographs by Robyn Stacey, one of Australia's greatest photographers, is the first of its kind. Together with essayist, Ashley Hay, they throw open the closed doors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney herbarium, and reveal the secret history of Australia's flora. Herbarium tells fascinating stories about the nature of collecting, those who collected, what they collected and when, and the scientific background to each of the specimens. A glossary of botanical descriptions provides a unique link between the specimens and their collectors, and exquisite photographs of the botanical specimens - some now extinct - comprise a collection of rare beauty.

BOT General Botany --- general botany --- herbarium collections --- history of botany --- plants and arts --- Botany --- Plant collecting --- Plant collectors --- Botanical specimens --- Herbarium specimens --- Plant material (Botanical specimens) --- Plant specimens --- Biological specimens --- Botanical collectors --- Plant hunters --- Botanists --- Collectors and collecting --- Naturalists --- Botanical collecting --- Plant hunting --- Wild plant collecting --- Botanical science --- Floristic botany --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- History. --- Collection and preservation --- National Herbarium of New South Wales. --- New South Wales. --- New South Wales National Herbarium --- Arts and Humanities --- General and Others