scholarly journals A theme issue on landscape ecology

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Craig Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Ecological Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
New Feature ◽  
The Ideal

This issue introduces a new feature of Pacific Conservation Biology ? a theme issue. In this case the theme is "Landscape Ecology", a developing field in conservation biology which is strong in Australia and which, as these papers indicate, has considerable application to practical conservation. The papers are of high quality ? all were subject to critical review and revision ? and demonstrate the breadth of disciplines contributing to Landscape Ecology. A particularly pleasing feature is the range of organizations from which the authors come; Universities, CSIRO, State conservation agencies and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. This approaches the ideal we have set for the journal. The papers were submitted subsequent to a symposium on the topic at the 1993 meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia and were edited by Richard Hobbs; my thanks to him for the original suggestion and his extraordinary efficiency! I expect that we will have more such theme issues in the future, perhaps one a year, and I would welcome suggestions.

Sir George Taylor, 15 February 1904 - 12 November 1993

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 458-469
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Flowering Plant ◽  
Plant Taxonomy ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botany Department ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Ideal Person ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
The Ideal

George Taylor was a major British figure in flowering plant taxonomy during the period from 1930 to 1970. A Scot, he was trained at Edinburgh University and was first employed (in 1928) in the Botany Department of the British Museum (Natural History) as assistant in the herbarium, then as Deputy Keeper of Botany and finally as Keeper, coming into contact with all the influential currents of plant taxonomy of his day. This experience, coupled with his life-long interest in gardening, made him the ideal person to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew when Sir Edward Salisbury retired in 1956. Taylor spent 15 very active years at Kew, and then, at an age when most are thinking of retiring, took on a new career as Director of the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, a post which he held for 18 years until illness made it impossible for him to continue. Over this long period, his influence on flowering plant taxonomy and gardening in Britain and abroad was enormous and widely recognized.

Annotations in copies of Thomas Johnson's Mercurius botanicus (1634) and Mercurii botanici, pars altera (1641): authorship and provenance

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Edgington
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Original Owner ◽  
Thomas Wilson ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

By an analysis of extensive and detailed annotations in copies of Thomas Johnson's Mercurius botanicus (1634) and Mercurii botanici, pars altera (1641) held in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the probable author is identified as William Bincks, an apprentice apothecary of Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Through Elias Ashmole, a friend of Bincks' master Thomas Agar, a link is established with the probable original owner, John Watlington of Reading, botanist and apothecary, and colleague of Thomas Johnson. The route by which the book ended up in the hands of Thomas Wilson, a journeyman copyist of Leeds, is suggested. Plants growing near Kingston-upon-Thames in the late seventeenth century, recorded in manuscript, are noted, many being first records for the county of Surrey.

Disposing of John Lindley's library and herbarium: the offer to Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. LUCAS
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Final Disposal ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Horticultural Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
United Kingdom Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Joseph Hooker

Shortly before he died, John Lindley decided to dispose of his herbarium and botanical library. He sold his orchid herbarium to the United Kingdom government for deposit at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then offered his library and the remainder of his herbarium to Ferdinand Mueller in Melbourne. On his behalf, Joseph Hooker had earlier unsuccessfully offered the library and remnant herbarium to the University of Sydney, using the good offices of Sir Charles Nicholson. Although neither the University of Sydney nor Mueller was able to raise the necessary funds to purchase either collection, the correspondence allows a reconstruction of a catalogue of Lindley's library, and poses some questions about Joseph Hooker's motives in attempting to dispose of Lindley's material outside the United Kingdom. The final disposal of the herbarium to Cambridge and previous analyses of the purchase of his Library for the Royal Horticultural Society are discussed. A list of the works from Lindley's library offered for sale to Australia is appended.

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