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Kew Gardens
Or, a Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext The eminent British botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) expanded and developed the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a world-leading centre of research and conservation. Appointed its first full-time director in 1841, Hooker came to Kew following a highly successful period in the chair of botany at Glasgow University. He quickly began to extend the gardens, arranging for the building of the now famous Palm House and establishing the Museum of Economic Botany. This volume reissues Hooker's popular guides to the gardens (sixteenth edition) and to the museum (third edition), both published in 1858. Illustrated throughout, these documents reveal the areas and specimens accessible to a receptive Victorian public. Hooker's ten volumes of Icones Plantarum (1837-54) have also been reissued in this series, along with many works by his son and equally accomplished successor, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911). Zusammenfassung Eminent botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) transformed the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a world-leading centre of excellence. This is a single-volume reissue of his popular guides to the gardens (sixteenth edition) and to its Museum of Economic Botany (third edition), both published in 1858. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Kew Gardens; Index; Preface; The Museum of Economic Botany; Index.

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