The North American Sylva
Author | : François André Michaux |
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Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : François André Michaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : André Michaux |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 081732030X |
Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists Known to today’s biologists primarily as the “Michx,” at the end of more than 700 plant names, André Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chênes de l’Amérique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785–1797 is the first complete English edition of Michaux’s American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships—debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck—that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar.
Author | : Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1806 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : William Paul Crillon Barton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Barbara M. Thiers |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1643260529 |
“A sweeping history of the origins, development, and future of herbaria and their role in plant consternation.” —The American Gardener Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world’s flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today.
Author | : Thomas Nuttall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : Henry Savage |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780813911076 |
A biography of two significant figures in the botanical history of France and the United States, who were responsible for important contributions to the advancement of botany, horticulture, and forestry
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Total Pages | : 1172 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : David C. Powell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Forest plants |
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Author | : Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Botany |
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