Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of Oxford Botany

ISBN-13: 9781851245611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str.

PhD) Harris Stephen A. (BSc

Opis

Oxford has an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. Celebrating 400 years of Oxford botany, this book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries.

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ContentsForewordPreface1Root: The Origins of Botany2Stem: Botanical Collections3Leaf: Collectors and Collecting Methods4Bud: Naming and Classifying5Flower: Experimental Botany6Fruit: Applied Botany7Seed: Teaching BotanyNotesFurther ReadingTimelinePicture CreditsIndex

O autorze

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