Book ID: CBB000772521

Richard Spruce: Naturalist and Explorer (2004)

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Pearson, Michael Parker (Author)


Hudson History of Settle


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: 100 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Spruce was a 19th-century English botanist who spent years exploring South America.


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Review Knapp, Sandra (2006) Review of "Richard Spruce: Naturalist and Explorer". Archives of Natural History (p. 372). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hung, Kuang-Chi
Matthew Fishburn
Bean, Anthony R.
Cicuzza, Daniele
Vallance, Thomas
Robinson, Tanya Zoe
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Journal of the History of Collections
Science in Context
Royal Historical Society. Transactions
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
University of Hawai'i Press
Sasquatch Books
Oxford University Press
National Library of Australia
Miegunyah Press
ABRS
Concepts
Collectors and collecting
Botany
Natural history
Travel; exploration
Naturalists
Specimens
People
North, Marianne
Huet, Nicolas
Bowman, Edward Macarthur
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Thunberg, Carl Peter
Spruce, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Australia
Atlantic world
Bath (England)
Tahiti
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Institutions
Natural History Museum (London, England)
British East India Company
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