Article ID: CBB005206881

A Scottish Daughter of Flora: Lady Charlotte Murray and Her Herbarium Portabile (2019)

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A collection of 267 late-eighteenth-century miniature botanical illustrations, painted in Perthshire, Scotland, by Lady Charlotte Murray (1754–1808) is described. The drawings are arranged according to the Sexual System of Linnaeus in a specially adapted box. The scientific and social context of the collection is discussed, including the role the cards may have played in relation to a botanical card game housed in a companion box of educational games also created by Lady Charlotte. Her place in the history of the discovery of the Scottish Highland flora is discussed, as is her influence on the botanical activities of her nieces Lady Charlotte Menzies and Lady Amelia Drummond.

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Authors & Contributors
Rose, Edwin
Noltie, Henry J.
Emer Lawlor
Pearman, David A.
van Andel, Tulemore Ruth
Ulrich Päßler
Concepts
Botany
Plant geography; flora
Herbarium; herbaria
Illustrations
Natural history
Biological specimens
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Early modern
Modern
Places
Great Britain
Scotland
Ireland
Tropics
Jamaica (Caribbean)
England
Institutions
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Dutch East India Company
Cambridge University
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