This web site is based on the list published by J.H. Willis, D. Pearson, M.T. Davis, and J.W. Green, Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes Number 12, August 1986. That original list has been supplemented by additional entries and some updates of dates, especially where people have died since that publication. Links to biographical notes and portraits have been added for many entries. It basically lists those collectors or illustrators likely to be encountered in Australian herbaria and the relevant scientific literature. ... [Information of the supplier]
Authors of plant names, collectors of botanical specimens, and authors of botanical publications. (...) Plant name authors, collectors, and publication authors are combined into a single resource. Enter a person's name either as lastname, firstname, e.g. jones, david or by the standard abbreviation, e.g. d r jones. An author or collector name is sometimes made up of multiple names and can be entered as such or a team record can be located from the record of any of its members. (...) ... [Information of the supplier]
Online edition of the c. 10 000 pages of "Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition", the standard reference work for plant taxonomic literature from Linnean times to 1940. Seven volumens by Frans A. Stafleu (1921-1997) and Richard S. Cowan (1921-1997) published between 1976 and 1988, plus six supplements by Frans Stafleu and Erik Mennega (1923-1998) to the letters A-E published between 1992 and 2000. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
October 16, 2008 marks the 300th anniversary of Albrecht von Haller’s birth. Haller, a true polymath, is one of the most noteworthy indiviuals of the era of Enlightenment. His prominent efforts, as the founder of experimental physiology, researcher of Swiss flora and alpine poet were groundbreaking in the fields of medicine, botany and literature. During his tenure in Göttingen he set up the botanical garden and moulded the newly established university as a modern research institution. As magistrate for Bern he kept his region safe from the cattle plague that raged throughout Europe, and he developed energy-saving techniques for the extraction of salt. As a polymath and careful observer of his time he advanced his opinions on practically every domain of science and facet of human existence. As a great communicator he exchanged thousands of letters with people throughout Europe. His life and work reflect on a time of great change that still affects us today. The Albrecht von Haller Foundation of the Burgergemeinde Bern launches in collaboration with the University of Bern and other partners a series of events in 2008/09 which present Haller as a paradigmatic figure between Ancien Régime and modern science. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Biographical Collection is an online-searchable extract from the Zander Index and contains roughly 7600 documents of biographical data on gardeners and horticultural scientists from all fields of horticulture; also included are many people that have contributed to botany. Biographical cards denoted with the BS entry indicate that illustrations, full-text and more information on a specific person are in the special collection of the Horticultural Library. The entire Zander Index, named for its founder, Dr Robert Zander, consists of an estimated 216,000 index cards containing literature notes from approximately 30 German-language horticultural journals for the time period from 1783 to 1920. In addition, the journals “Gartenwelt” (Garden World) and “Gartenbauwirtschaft” (Horticultural Economy) were evaluated until 1930 and 1941, respectively. Occasionally, newer documents are also included. The Index, in its entirety, can currently only be used in the Horticultural Library in Berlin. ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
This site seeks to facilitate access to samples of the handwriting of important botanical collectors. Although handwriting is often a key component in deciphering the identity of historical specimens and determining type material, researchers frequently find limited access to handwriting samples. Handwriting samples of some collectors have been published over the years, but are scattered over a number of journals and not immediately accessible to all. Travel to important historical collections in various herbaria is also frequently only available to a limited number of researchers. Thus, we sought to develop a central resource for the dissemination of handwriting documentation that was more freely accessible to researchers around the world. ... [Information of the supplier]
The present work is limited to those papers of Sir Joseph Banks which are held in the Mitchell and Dixson collections at the State Library of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. These amount to approximately 10,000 manuscript pages and include correspondence, principally letters received, but also reports, invoices and accounts, journals, plus a small quantity of maps, charts and watercolours. While many of these documents have been published in various works before, the collection is published here for the first time in facsimile, and extensively indexed. ... [Information of the supplier]
This virtual catalogue assembles the handwriting samples of botanists which originally where published in the journal Candollea between 1972 and 1979. The site aims to facilitate deciphering of herbarium labels and handwritten annotations. [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
Die älteste heute noch bestehende botanische Vereinigung der Welt, die Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft (www.regensburgische-botanische-gesellschaft.de) feiert am 15. Dezember 2010 den 250. Geburtstag ihres Gründers David Heinrich Hoppe. Die Universitätsbibliothek nimmt dies zum Anlass, aus dem seit den Anfangszeiten der Gesellschaft geführten Archiv und den als Dauerleihgabe vorhandenen Beständen in einer virtuellen Ausstellung Leben und Werk Hoppes zu würdigen, indem ausgewählte Archivalien und Schriften in digitalisierter Form präsentiert werden. Wir verfolgen Hoppes Werdegang als Apotheker, Botaniker und Herausgeber bedeutender botanischer Zeitschriften und stellen digitalisierte Reiseberichte, Pflanzenbeschreibungen und Zeitschriftenartikel vor. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Frank Kingdon Ward was a successful and famous explorer and plant collector. He wrote and published 25 books as well as contributing to inumerable magazine and newspaper articles. He explored areas of Western China, Burma, Tibet, and Assam from 1909 to 1958. But he was certainly not the only high achiever in his family. The information here comes originally from two studies of the family name and has been augmented by internet and other research done by myself. ... [Information of the supplier]
