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Plant collecting and herbarium development : a manual
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ISBN: 9251011443 Year: 1981 Publisher: Rome : FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations = Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture),

The herbarium handbook
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ISBN: 1900347431 Year: 1998 Publisher: Kew Royal botanic gardens


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Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants
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ISBN: 900423411X 9789004234116 9789004234109 9004234101 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boston Brill

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Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin’s American Plants offers a detailed account of the Austrian botanical expedition to the Caribbean that took place between 1754 and 1759, culminating in the publication of the Selectarum stirpium americanarum historia (1763) by the famous Dutch-born scientist, the first Linnaean botanist in the New World. Novel findings about Jacquin’s family and early life are given. Through a careful reading of Jacquin’s own publications, letters and manuscripts, Santiago Madriñán provides, from a botanist’s perspective, a meticulous description of the places visited by Jacquin and the plants he collected. The splendid color illustrations of the plants published in the luxury second edition of the Selectarum in 1780 are here reprinted, together with an annotated list of the species described. This title was awarded the Stafleu Medal for 2015 for publications of 2013 and 2014 for outstanding publications in historical, bibliographical, and/or nomenclatural aspects of plant taxonomy.

Herbarium
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ISBN: 0521842778 0511082320 9780511082320 1280415924 9781280415920 9780511196249 0511196245 0521603927 9780521842778 1107140471 9786610415922 0511170742 0511297912 0511481543 0511081871 9780511481543 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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