Book ID: CBB000772519

Seeds of Blood and Beauty: Scottish Plant Explorers (2005)

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Lindsay, Ann (Author)


Birlinn


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: 296 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Discusses men such as William Wright (1735--1810) and Francis Masson (1741--1805), in a discussion of the practicalities of scientific exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries.


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Review Nelson, E. Charles (2006) Review of "Seeds of Blood and Beauty: Scottish Plant Explorers". Archives of Natural History (p. 371). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nelson, E. Charles
White, Jessica
Noltie, H. J.
Loskutova, Marina
Elina, Olga
Rickiene, A.
Concepts
Botany
Collectors and collecting
Natural history
Biographies
Plants
Naturalists
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
Scotland
Great Britain
North America
Bath (England)
Tahiti
Lithuania
Institutions
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Royal Society of London
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