Drawn from Life

Drawn from Life
Author: Victoria Dickenson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780802080738

An illustrated archeology of the imagination that reveals how artists and writers from the late 16th to the early 19th century, most of whom had never seen North America, portrayed the natural history and landscape of North America to European readers.

Botanical Exploration Southern Africa

Botanical Exploration Southern Africa
Author: Mary Gunn
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1981-06-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780869611296

This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351457128

A reference covering over 22,000 genre of plants and thousands of species. Included are the botanical names, synonyms, homonyms, and the vernacular and trade names of the commonly accepted generic names.

The Art of Botanical Illustration

The Art of Botanical Illustration
Author: Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780486272658

This beautiful book surveys the evolution of botanical illustration from the crude scratchings of paleolithic man down to the highly scientific work of the 20th-century. 186 magnificent examples, over 30 in full color.

Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature. Delivered as a Lecture Before the Medical Historical Society of Chicago, 1910, and Before the University of Nebraska, October 16, 1913

Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature. Delivered as a Lecture Before the Medical Historical Society of Chicago, 1910, and Before the University of Nebraska, October 16, 1913
Author: Howard Atwood Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1914
Genre: Botanists
ISBN:

This book contains brief biographies, portraits and pictures of the specimens that the botanists were noted for. The botanists discussed range from Joseph Trimble Rothrock, an American environmentalist, recognized as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania to Charles Wilkins Short, a Kentuckian who discovered several species of plants and has six species of plants named after him, who also practiced medicine and taught materia medica.