Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet
Review for: Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet, by Maria Nugent Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2005, xiv+256pp, ISBN 1741145759.
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La divulgación botánica para los hombres de campo a través de las revistas mexicanas, 1840-1855
Between 1840 and 1855 in Mexico City six magazines for farmers were published to introduce them to botany as a useful science. The analysis of some of the articles that appeared in these magazines, from the perspective of the social history of science ...
Rodrigo Vega y Ortega
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Featured Herbarium: BUT—The Friesner Herbarium of Butler University [PDF]
Feature written by Rebecca Dolan on the BUT—The Friesner Herbarium of Butler University in the ...
Dolan, Rebecca W.
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A Field Guide for Grasses and Grass-like Plants of Idaho [PDF]
The purpose of this project is to develop a user-friendly field guide to grasses and grass-like plants in Idaho, specifically geared to those with limited background in botany. The guide will feature 60 Idaho grasses and grass-like plants, intended for K-
Strand, Eva K, (Mentor) +1 more
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The American plants in Charles de l'Écluse's works: first records in Juan de Castañeda's letters
The Flemish botanist Charles de l'Écluse's works contain abundant references to American plants, for example the avocado (Persea americana Mill.), the sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.], the potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and the tobáceo (Nicotiana ...
Luis Ramón-Laca Menéndez de Luarca
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Development of non-destructive methodology using ATR-FTIR with PCA to differentiate between historical Pacific barkcloth [PDF]
Barkcloths, non-woven textiles originating from the Pacific Islands, form part of many museum collections and date back to the 18th and 19th centuries.
Holmes-Smith, A. Sheila +2 more
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М.М. Gryshko National Botanical Gardens: main results of scientific activity
The history of creation and development of the National Botanical Gardens, their structure, principles of laying out, plots and collections are reviewed.
P.A. Moroz, М.B. Gaponenko
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Re-evaluating Student Treatments of Barkcloth Artefacts from the Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [PDF]
Since 1995 textile conservation students have treated 17 pieces of barkcloth from the Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A re-examination of 8 treated objects has enabled comparison of the effectiveness of interventive treatments ...
Lennard, Frances +2 more
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The use of chloroplast genome sequences to solve phylogenetic incongruences in Polystachya Hook (Orchidaceae Juss) [PDF]
Background: Current evidence suggests that for more robust estimates of species tree and divergence times, several unlinked genes are required. However, most phylogenetic trees for non-model organisms are based on single sequences or just a few regions ...
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