Book ID: CBB000021946

Botanical exploration of Southern Africa: An illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora, biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times. Introductory volume to the Flora of Southern Africa (1981)

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Gunn, Mary (Author)
Codd, L. E. (Author)


Balkema for the Botanical Research Institute


Publication Date: 1981
Physical Details: xiv + 400 pp.; illus.; index

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Authors & Contributors
Nelson, E. Charles
Boran, Elizabethanne
Daszkiewicz, Piotr
Edmondson, John
Edwards, Phyllis I.
Fedotova, Anastasia A.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
Agricultural History
Antilia: Revista Española de Historia de las Ciencias de la Naturaleza y de la Tecnología
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Publishers
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Brenthurst Press
Four Courts Press
South African Library
Durban Botanic Gardens
NatureBureau
Concepts
Plant geography; flora
Botany
Plants
Gardens
Natural history
Horticulture
People
Thunberg, Carl Peter
Balfour, John Hutton
Banks, Joseph
Boerhaave, Herman
Burman, Nikolaus Laurens
Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Modern
Early modern
Places
South Africa
Ireland
India
Ottoman Empire
Canada
Latin America
Institutions
Cambridge University
Dutch East India Company
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Vilna Uniwersytet (Vilnius University)
Botanical Society of Scotland
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