Botanical Study and Cytology

This article considers how the children's books written by two nineteenth-century female writers, Eliza Tabor and Mary Martha Sherwood, when they accompanied their husbands to India, enabled them to navigate this new environment and their position as respectable middle-class women while revealing how India was deemed a place where British childhood was impossible. Just as many women took up botanical study to legitimise their ‘otherwise transgressive presence in imperial spaces’ (McEwan 219), writing for children enabled others to engage with the masculine world of travelling and earning money without compromising their femininity. Addressing their work to children also seems to have helped both writers to deal with the absence of their own children: the Indian climate made it impossibly challenging for most British infants and children. In this way their writing gives expression to what might be termed a crisis of imperial motherhood. Underlying the texts is an anxiety relating to British settlement and an attempt to comprehend and control a place that threatened their maternal roles.

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A Geo-botanical Study of Alder Forest and Elm Forest in a Small Tributary Basin

Annals of The Tohoku Geographycal Asocciation ◽

10.5190/tga1948.28.83 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 83-93

Author(s):

Hajime MAKITA ◽

Takao KIKUCHI ◽

Osamu MIURA ◽

Kei SUGAWARA

Keyword(s):

Alder Forest ◽

Small Tributary ◽

Botanical Study

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Ethno-botanical study of medicinal plants of Paddar Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India

African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines ◽

10.4314/ajtcam.v10i4.10 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

Author(s):

SK Gupta ◽

OMP Sharma ◽

NS Raina ◽

S Sehgal

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Jammu And Kashmir ◽

Botanical Study

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A BOTANICAL STUDY OF HAY PLOTS

Annals of Applied Biology ◽

10.1111/j.1744-7348.1930.tb07338.x ◽

1930 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 107-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

E. WYLLIE FENTON

Keyword(s):

Botanical Study

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Ceramic Evidence for the Prehistoric Distribution of Maize In Mexico

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/279692 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 305-314 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Mary Eubanks Dunn

Keyword(s):

Zea Mays ◽

Geographical Distribution ◽

High Frequency ◽

Maize Agriculture ◽

Valley Of Oaxaca ◽

Botanical Study

This archaeological and botanical study of maize (Zea mays) represented on Zapotec funerary urns is relevant to studies of the development and spread of prehistoric cultures, and of the evolution of maize agriculture. In the Valley of Oaxaca, circa A.D. 600-1200, the Zapotecs attached models of actual ears of maize to their ceramic funerary urns. The high frequency of the depiction of Nal Tel on the urns suggests that Nal Tel had important symbolic associations for the Zapotecs. It was found that the races Chapalote, Harinoso de Ocho, and a type of dent com had a much wider geographical distribution in Precolumbian times than they do today.

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