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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Hand-List of Orchids, Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens.
DYER, William Turner Thistleton.
Published by For His Majesty's Stationery Office. London. Second edition, 1904
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pp. xiii, (i), 229, (i). Printed rectos only. Lacks rear wrapper, front wrapper with a couple of chips and loss at top edge and gutter, else a good copy. *No copy of this edition listed on COPAC.
An interesting Autograph Letter Signed, about the arrival of a box of cuttings of the oro plant from Sierra Leone, his own published note on the subject, the use of the Euphabia [Euphorbia] plant for painting ships' bottoms, etc.
THISTLETON DYER, Sir William Turner.
Published by 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition.
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Royal Gardens, Kew, 13 August 1886. W.T.Thistleton Dyer (1843-1928), English botanist, assistant director and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens.