Robert Brown and Mungo Park : travels and explorations in natural history for the Royal Society

Robert Brown and Mungo Park : travels and explorations in natural history for the Royal Society / Joel Schwartz.

Explorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work is a fresh examination of the lives and careers of Brown and Park and their impact on natural history and expl...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Joel S., 1940- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Series:Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden ; v. 122.
Subjects:
Brown, Robert, > 1773-1858.
Park, Mungo, > 1771-1806.
Brown, Robert, > 1773-1858
Park, Mungo, > 1771-1806
1700-1899
Naturalists > Great Britain.
Natural history > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Natural history > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Scientific expeditions > History > 18th century.
Scientific expeditions > History > 19th century.
Natural history
Naturalists
Scientific expeditions
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Collecting, Observing, and Describing the Natural World
  • Scientific Ferment in late Eighteenth Century Edinburgh
  • Scientific Exploration During Voyages of Discovery
  • ... the plants of Scotland might be equally useful
  • Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
  • A good practical Botanist
  • So remote a country as New Holland
  • The Crew labouring under the Same disorder
  • Mungo Park's Last Journey
  • A Tedious and Uncomfortable Passage
  • Prodrommus, Florae Novae Hollndiae
  • Banks's Librarian
  • Taking leave of Sir Joseph Banks
  • Pollen Grains of Clarkis pulchella
  • Epilogue: The greatest of Banksian botanist-librarians
  • Bibliography.

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