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020 _a9781139833721 (ebook)
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_beng
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100 1 _aHenslow, John Stevens,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA Catalogue of British Plants Arranged According to the Natural System :
_bWith the Synonyms of De Candolle, Smith, and Lindley /
_cJohn Stevens Henslow.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1829.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (80 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Botany and Horticulture
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aIn 1829, botany had much to prove. A prominent lecturer, John Lindley, noted that 'it has been very much the fashion of late years, in this country, to undervalue the importance of this science, and to consider it an amusement for ladies rather than an occupation for the serious thoughts of man'. In the three documents reissued here, Cambridge botany professor John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) demonstrates the exacting standards of his course. The work contains an 1829 catalogue of British plants, the skeleton structure of sixteen lectures for 1833 and an 1851 list of potential examination questions. Students were expected to differentiate between 'an indefinite and a definite inflorescence', to recognise 'albuminous seeds', and describe 'nectariferous appendages'. With a strongly Linnaean approach to taxonomy, this collection offers researchers a window into the growth of academic botany prior to the revolution occasioned by Stevens' pupil, Charles Darwin.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108061728
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pBotany and Horticulture.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139833721
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