ANTWERP PRATT AND HIS PLANT COLLECTIONS Kilpatrick, Jane; Harmer, Jennifer
Curtis's botanical magazine (1995),
September 2022, 2022-09-00, 20220901, Letnik:
39, Številka:
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The Chinese plant collections of Antwerp Edgar Pratt (1852–1924), are discussed. His early life and travels to Tachien‐lu (Kangding) in 1889 are described. As one of the first European ...botanists to visit this area, he collected many previously undescribed species.
Voyage of the botanists King, Barbara J
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
05/2023, Letnik:
380, Številka:
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A reporter recounts the tale of a daring expedition that yielded vital insights about the Grand Canyon’s flora
As members of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society (ONPS) well know, Oklahoma has a tremendous diversity of vascular plants—174 families, 854 genera, and approximately 2,600 species—that reflects the ...ecogeographic diversity present within the state’s borders (Tyrl et al. 2008). Our knowledge of this flora is the result of contributions by numerous individuals for more than 450 years. Some simply recorded their observations of the state’s flora as they passed through; whereas, others made systematic surveys and documented their work by actually collecting plants for voucher specimens to be deposited in herbaria. These individuals and the contributions that they have made to our knowledge of the plants and vegetation of Oklahoma are the subject of this essay. Its title and concept are rooted in a presidential address given by H.I. Featherly in 1942 to the Oklahoma Academy of Science and a master’s thesis by Wanona Henson, one of his graduate students (Henson 1941; Featherly 1943). We have unabashedly adopted their approach and excerpted some of their thoughts about the state’s first field botanists in our synopses. As they did, we present our individuals more or less chronologically. Each synopsis comprises a brief biographical sketch and the botanical contribution(s) they made. When specific plants are cited, currently accepted scientific names are used unless otherwise noted. Common names are taken from Taylor and Taylor (1994), Tyrl and coworkers (2008), Folley (2011), and USDA, NRCS (2013).
The paper road Mueggler, Erik
2011., 20111003, 2011, 2011-11-02
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This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens ...from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest's workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied, translated, and revised and what can be folded back into the earth.
This collection employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and artwork to reconstruct plant work by figures ranging from ...elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in mid- and late-century Ontario and Australia.
To mark the commencement of Dennis Stevenson's status as Senior Curator Emeritus at New York Botanical Garden, we present a brief and subjective overview of his academic achievements to date. We ...highlight his deep and scholarly background in plant morphology, his adherence to cladistic methodologies for testing hypotheses of organismal relationships, especially in cycads and monocots, and his inspirational influence on students and colleagues within the botanical community.
Twitter unearths imperiled species Gewin, Virginia
Frontiers in ecology and the environment,
06/2018, Letnik:
16, Številka:
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Gewin offers information on Plants are Cool, Too!, a web-based video series produced by Chris Martine, a botany professor and herbarium manager at Bucknell University. Like many scientists, Martine ...uses Twitter to connect with other botanists and share information. Until now, his efforts had never yielded an unexpected discovery.
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