Root Anatomy of 17 Genera Growing in the British Isles

IAWA Journal ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. E. Gasson ◽  
D. F. Cutler
Keyword(s):  
Woody Species ◽  
Root Anatomy ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
The South ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Trees And Shrubs ◽  
Identification Manual

Roots of 23 woody species are described anatomically. They are mostly from species uncommonly planted in the British Isles, and were unavailable at the time the Root Identification Manual of Trees and Shrubs (Cutler et al. 1987) was being written. They were collected from trees blown down in the stonn of October 1987, which uprooted over 15 million trees in the south and east of England. All but one (Tetracentron sinensis) are from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, or Wakehurst Place.

scholarly journals ‘Specimens Distributed’

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Cornish ◽  
Felix Driver
Keyword(s):  
Economic Botany ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Clearing House ◽  
The World ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

Abstract This paper presents research on the dispersal of objects from the Museum of Economic Botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (rbgk) from 1847 to 1914. Established by William Hooker, the museum received thousands of objects from around the world, the display of which was designed to illustrate plants’ properties and economic potential. The paper argues that the conventional focus in museum studies on processes of acquisition and accumulation captures only one side of collections’ history. Drawing on research in archives and collections at Kew and elsewhere, we highlight the redistribution of specimens and artefacts from Kew’s museum through a variety of channels. We focus on three modes of circulation: firstly, Kew’s role as a clearing house for collections; secondly the exchange of objects; and thirdly the distribution of specimens and artefacts to schools across the British Isles, a practice which became prevalent towards the end of the period.

scholarly journals Studies on Marine Algae of the British Isles: Ceramium shuttleworthianum (Kütz.) Silva

1960 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter S. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Marine Algae ◽  
Botanical Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Specific Epithet ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

The species was first distinguished by Carmichael, as Ceramium acanthonotum, in his unpublished Algae Appinensis, the manuscript of which is now preserved at the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Harvey (in Hooker, 1833), in publishing Carmichael's description, regarded the species merely as a variety of C. ciliatum. Agardh (1844) raised the variety to specific status, and it is as C. acanthonotum that the species has been known generally. Kiitzing (1841), 1 in a revision of the genus Ceramium, had described the entity independently as Acanthoceras shuttleworthianum; the specific epithetshuttleworthianum has priority overacanthonotum [see Article 60 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Lanjouw, 1956)]. The priority of the epithet shuttleworthianum was indicated, independently, by both Silva (1959) and Dixon (1959); of the two publications, that by Silva is the earlier.

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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