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A practical treatise on tree culture in South Australia
John Ednie Brown [British botanist and silvologist (1848-1899)]
Published by E. Spiller, Adelaide, 1886
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. x, [2], 115 pages + 9 plates : 21 cm. lacks rear cover.
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Vegetables in South-East Asia
Herklots, G. A. C. [Dr Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots (1902 - 14 January 1986) was a British botanist and ornithologist. From 1928 he was a reader in biology at Hong Kong University until the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941, during which he was interned in Stanley, Hong Kong, until 1945. After the war was over he returned to London and joined the Colonial Service. From 1953 to 1960 he was Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad].
Published by Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Ruskin House, 40 Museum Street, London First Edition . 1972., 1972
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original emerald green rexene cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9¾'' x 7''. Herklots is commemorated in the name of an orchid, Eria herklotsii Crib. Contains [xii] 525 printed pages of text with 159 monochrome illustrations throug…hout. Light foxing to the closed text block edges and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 004635008X BOTANY (Phytology).
[Ireland] A Letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone upon a Land Scheme for Ireland.
Charles Baron Clarke (1832-1906), British botanist [William Ewart Gladstone]
Published by London: Macmillan and Co, 1881
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Add to basketOctavo: twenty pages. Unbound and stitched. Good, but with outer leaves a little grubby and creased. The word 'rack-rent' on page six has been underlined and three exclamation marks placed beside it in ink. As well as important botanical works, Clarke numbered political economy and education among his interests.
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3 autograph letters signed "Jos. D. Hooker".
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, British botanist and explorer (1817-1911).
Published by Kew and The Camp, Sunningdale, Berkshire, 1877-1909., 1909
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Add to basket8vo and 12mo. Together 6 pp. on bifolia. With an autograph note attributed to William Jackson Hooker and an autograph letter monogrammed by the botanist Daniel Oliver. Scientific correspondence by the great botanist with mostly unnamed colleagues, concerning the exchange of specimens and their various designations. The earliest…letter is addressed to the American botanist Michael Schuck Bebb, answering questions about willows: "The enclosed herewith contains the best that we can do for you in regard to the willows which Prof. Oliver has drawn up [.] We have no specimen named S. pyrifolia Anders [.]" (Kew, April 1877). - The keeper and librarian of the herbarium in Kew, Daniel Oliver (1830-1916), is also mentioned in the second letter to an unnamed recipient from 19 March 1884. Hooker announces that he has instructed Oliver to send specimens of "Exotic Grasses" to the correspondent and thanks him for contributions to his magnum opus, "Genera Plantarum": "It will give me great pleasure to contribute to your collection of Exotic Grasses, I have instructed Prof. Oliver accordingly. You have laid us under great obligations in the aid you have given us in respect of the Genera Plantarum. Your offer of specimens of [.] Transylvanian Grasses is most welcome [.] but I must beg you to wait till we have sent you some contributions from Kew." The correspondent had inquired about Hooker's famous collaborator George Bentham (1800-84), to which he responds: "You will have been gratified by hearing before this that my venerable coadjutor, Mr Bentham is alive & working hard at the Lilianae for 'Gen. Plant.' He has not been well of late, & I wish that his bodily health was as good as his altogether unimpaired faculties of sight, analysis, memory & judgement! These at 82 are quite wonderful & show no sign of change. A troublesome cough has weakened him a good deal [.]". Bentham, who late in his life had been "converted" to Darwinism by his young colleague Hooker and who co-authored the "Genera Plantarum", died in September that year. - In the final letter of the collection, an aged Hooker thanks his correspondent for two specimens of the genus Impatiens and criticizes the quality of some specimens from the collection of the Austrian hortologist Carl von Hügel: "The two species of Impatiens have arrived & I have examined & named them [.] I have examined & named, as far as I can, all the Asiatic species [.] which I have delayed returning until the plates of several species are completed for the forthcoming Part of 'Hooker's Icones Plantarum' in which they will appear. I have sorted the species according the countries which they inhabit. There are some undescribed species in Baron Hugel's collection but without habitats & the specimens being very poor I think it better not to name them [.]". Carl von Hügel (1795-1870) was a diplomat, botanist and explorer who wrote a famous account of his travels in Northern India, introduced many Australian plants to Europe and was the founder of the Imperial Horticultural Society in Vienna. - The undated note that can be attributed to William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), father of Joseph Dalton and first director at Kew from 1841 onwards, concerns the identification of an orchid: "I am unacquainted with this plant. It may be Rchb's Sobralia Bletia [.]. At all events it is not S. fragrans - which differs in size & the appendages of the column which in S. fragrans are short blunt and not fringed. I take for granted that the leaves are not hairy beneath as the drawing does not indicate them. If they are you had better look to S. Galeotti [.]". - David Oliver's letter from 12 July 1876 to an unnamed friend and colleague concerns the difficult identification of plants and includes two sketches. In closing, Oliver also mentions Joseph Dalton Hooker's intention to marry his second wife Lady Hyacinth Jardine, daughter of William Samuel Symonds: "Entre-nous [.] our good Chief J Hooker intends to marry Lady Jardine [.]". Ho.
Published by 3 Albion Grove West Islington. 22 February, 1849
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Add to basket1p., 4to. 31 lines of text, written in a neat and close hand. The letter begins in lighthearted fashion: 'Dear Martha, | I never wrote Poetry in my life, and write as you see a very prosaic Hand; I hope you are not one who form your ideas of character from Handwriting, if you do, I ifear you will regard me as stiff, stubborn, un…bending, self willed, and self-opinionated, and very likely you will be not far wrong.' He boasts of having known the recipient and her 'three amiable sisters' for 14 years, and discusses his relationship with them (their father being his mother's cousin), and the fact that his sister, who died at the age of 14 in 1830, 'was named Alison Dewar White: she was a lovely girl, and was removed, just when her accomplishments had begun to manifest themselves and her education to tell'. The final paragraph concerns 'the Rev James Hamilton, author of "Life in Earnest" "The Dew of Hermon" & many other admirable tracts & essays [.] He is a man of very considerable mental powers, of a most cultivated intellect, specially fond of botany & entomology and like me a Fellow off the Linnean Society of London'. The letter concludes: 'my paper fails & I get garrulously gossiping'. In 1851 Darwin provided White with a testimonial in which he expressed his 'high opinion' of his 'Zoological attainments', and praising his 'great zeal for every branch of Natural History'.
Published by Kew on embossed letterhead of 'Royal Gardens Kew'. 2 January, 1886
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Add to basket2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. He refers him to 'the Post Office Directory' for a 'list of our scientific staff', and to 'the Official Guide which is on sale at all the Gates' for 'the principal facts as to the objects etc. of the Establishment', and concludes: 'The other information you ask for is embodied in our…annual report which is not at present issued'.
F.O. Bower, botanist] Autograph Letter Signed "F.O. Bower", botanist, to Dr. W.B. Crow [William Bernard Crow, biologist , etc., Author of 'A History of Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism']
F.O. Bower [Frederick Orpen Bower FRS] (18551948), British botanist
Published by 2 The Crescent Ripon Yorks 15 April, 1932
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Add to basketTwo pages, 4to, several closed tears, two small hole, one stain, 1in. dia., on p.2. , text clear and complete. "I am much obliged to you for sending me a copy of your 'Proteus' No.6 - the Goethe Commemoration Number. It was a happy idea to concentrate on this centenary. My interest naturally centres on the 'Metamorphosis of Plan…ts'. Had Goethe lived as a post Darwinian his keen insight would have led him to a rather different statement of his great synthesis. He would have accepted I am pretty sure a theory of segregation rather than a theory of metamorphosis. I wrote on this matter long ago, and if you are interested in the alternative view you will find a brief extract in my 'Botany of the Living Plant,' .| I shall read with particular interest the article of Dr Leon on the Faust Legend.".
Published by Westhorpe Westhorpe House Little Marlow Buckinghamshire 23 June, 1848
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Add to basket3pp., 16mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged, worn and creased. See both men's entries in the Oxford DNB. Nugent is delighted to learn of Wallich's 'appointment to the Superintendence of the Botanical Gardens at Calcutta', and is pleased that the post has made Wallich independent: 'I give myself Credit for having confir…med you in the Situation, for it was highly favorable to the Company's Interests & I believe the Directors are sensible of it [.] What a Pleasure it must be to you to see alll your children provided for in such honorable Employment - It is a just Reward for all your Labours, & you are fortunate in having adopted England as your Country, where you can attend to their Interests'. He thanks him for sending a newspaper, 'which reminds me of old Times, though I have no longer any Tie in India'. He ends by offering to return any of the documents Wallich has sent him.
