scholarly journals The Northern Lads :

2013 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Ron McEwen
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Disproportionate Number

It is well known that a disproportionate number of plant collectors for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the late 18th and 19th centuries were Scottish gardeners. Another important source of plants for Kew in its early days were the specialist London plant nurseries that were run by Scots. Less well known is the preponderance of Scots found in other areas of Kew’s work – gardeners in charge of the botanic garden, curators of various departments and gardeners who transferred to colonial botanic gardens. This Scottish phenomenon was not unique to Kew: it was found in other botanical and non-botanical institutions in London and the provinces. This paper charts the extent of the phenomenon and, on the basis of 18th- and 19th-century sources, analyses its causes.

The identity of John Rattray, diatomist and collector on the Buccaneer expedition (1885–1886) to West Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 408 (4) ◽  
pp. 296-300
Author(s):  
ESTRELA FIGUEIREDO ◽  
DAVID WILLIAMS ◽  
GIDEON F. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
West African ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
The West ◽  
West African Coast ◽  
African Coast ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
The 19Th Century

Herbarium records show that during the second half of the 19th century John Rattray collected several plant specimens at ports of call along the West African coast (Canary Islands, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, São Tomé, Príncipe, and Angola). At the herbarium (K) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, four such specimens are databased, three of which can be examined online. At the herbarium (E) of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 specimens are databased, twenty of which are imaged. All the specimens we examined have printed labels stating ‘Collected by John Rattray, H.M. Challenger Commission, Edinburgh’ with only a handwritten indication of the locality, for example ‘Loanda’ (Luanda, Angola). The collecting date has been omitted from the labels and there are no further details on the specimens. An investigation of the literature revealed that there is some confusion regarding the origin of the material and the identity of John Rattray, the collector.

The Establishment of Calcutta Botanic Garden: Plant Transfer, Science and the East India Company, 1786–1806

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian P. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Scientific Institution ◽  
Plant Transfer ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Garden Plant

AbstractCalcutta Botanic Garden occupies a prime riverside site three miles downstream from the centre of Calcutta. It is most famous as the home of the world's largest tree, a vast spreading banyan. Its grand avenues, named after its founders and the fathers of Indian botany, convey something of its former glory. In the nineteenth century it was the greatest of all the colonial botanic gardens and an important scientific institution; two of its superintendents were knighted and one went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the very centre of the imperial botanical network. The Garden is of considerable importance as it was one of the earliest institutions in India based on western science. This survey will look at the reasons for its foundation, and how it successfully established itself in its first twenty years.

scholarly journals John Christopher Willis 1868-1958

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 353-359
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Botany Department ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
University College ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

John Christopher Willis was bom at Birkenhead on 20 February 1868. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Cambridge and for a time was an assistant in the Botany Department at Glasgow. In 1896, he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon, and held the post for 15 years. From 1912 to 1915 he was director of the Botanic Garden at Rio de Janeiro and after his retirement he worked at Cambridge and later went to live at Les Terrages, Avenue des Alpes, Montreux, Switzerland, where he died on 21 March 1958. He married Minnie, daughter of T. Baldwin, in 1897, and she died in 1931. There were three daughters of the marriage. He was an M.A. and Sc.D.(Cantab.), and was given an honorary S.D. by Harvard. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1897 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919. The Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya , was a periodical founded by him, volume 1 part 1 appearing on 27 June 1901. Willis contributed very largely to the earlier volumes and edited volumes 1 to 4 inclusive, to 1910, and volume 5, parts 1 to 3, to December 1911. He was also editor of The Empire Cotton Growing Review from vol. 1, 1924 to vol. 16, 1939.

scholarly journals A synoptical account of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
M. Oliur Rahman ◽  
Md. Abul Hassan ◽  
Md. Manzurul Kadir Mia ◽  
Ahmed Mozaharul Huq
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
National Herbarium ◽  
Diagnostic Characteristics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Plant Taxon ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

Taxonomy, updated nomenclature and occurrence of the species belonging to the family Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh have been presented. Detailed herbarium study at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E), British Museum (BM), Bangladesh National Herbarium (DACB) and Dhaka University Salar Khan Herbarium (DUSH) has revealed the occurrence of 32 species under 15 genera of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh. The correct name, important synonym(s), salient diagnostic characteristics, specimens examined and distributional notes have been provided for each species. Dichotomous bracketed keys have also been presented for identification of genera and species.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v19i1.10943Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 19(1): 63-78, 2012 (June)

scholarly journals The Climate Change Alliance: botanic garden horticulturists as agents for change

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-122
Author(s):  
Peter Symes ◽  
Clare Hart
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Climate Change Risks ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

In 2016, the publication of the pioneering Landscape Succession Strategy heralded a horticultural response by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria to climate change risks faced by their living collections. This initiative led to the botanical world’s first Climate Change Summit in 2018 and the subsequent establishment of the Climate Change Alliance for Botanic Gardens. This article describes some of the anticipated climatic changes facing the Melbourne Gardens site, the strategic management of collections when considering these challenges, and how other botanical organisations can benefit from this approach through collaboration and sharing of expertise.

scholarly journals Objects, Histories and Encounters

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Economic Botany ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Forest Trees ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Rubber Material ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
The 19Th Century

Balata or bullet tree of Guiana was known as one of the finest forest trees of British Guiana. This paper is based on reports from the 19th and 20th centuries (mainly from George Jenman and Everard im Thurn), publications, newspapers, and correspondence on British Guiana’s balata, a rubber-like material. These references were cross-referenced with objects related to balata that are now preserved at the collection of Economic Botany, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as well as with contemporary reports from Guyanese Amerindian. By doing this, a more precise image of this less known rubber material from Guyana came forth, as well as the issues and histories behind it, namely the cross-cultural encounters, the objects significance and their context, and how the colony was managed. Despite the fact that balata was seen, during the last years of the 19th century, as an alternative commodity and a possible answer to the sugar crisis, not much was done to improve its trade.

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