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The Botanical Magazine
''The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed'', is an illustrated publication which began in 1787. The longest running botanical magazine, it is widely referred to by the subsequent name ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine''. Each of the issues contains a description, in formal yet accessible language, and is renowned for featuring the work of two centuries of botanical illustrators. Many plants received their first publication on the pages, and the description given was enhanced by the keenly detailed illustrations. History and profile The first issue, published on 1 February 1787, was begun by William Curtis, as both an illustrated gardening and botanical journal. Curtis was an apothecary and botanist who held a position at Kew Gardens, who had published the highly praised (but poorly sold) ''Flora Londinensis'' a few years before. The publication familiarized its readers with ornamental and exotic plants, which it presented in octavo format. Artists who had previously given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Illustrator
Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings. They must be scientifically accurate but often also have an artistic component and may be printed with a botanical description in books, magazines, and other media or sold as a work of art. Often composed by a botanical illustrator in consultation with a scientific author, their creation requires an understanding of plant morphology and access to specimens and references. Typical illustrations are in watercolour, but may also be in oils, ink or pencil, or a combination of these. The image may be life size or not, the scale is often shown, and may show the habit and habitat of the plant, the upper and reverse sides of leaves, and details of flowers, bud, seed and root system. Botanical illustration is sometimes used as a type for attribution of a botanical name to a taxon. The inability of botanists to conserve certain dried specimens, or restrictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Anne Hooker Thiselton-Dyer
Lady Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer ( Hooker; 1854–1945) was a British botanical illustrator. Life and career Harriet Anne Hooker was born in 1854 to the botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker and Frances Harriet Henslow, who was the daughter of botanist and Cambridge University professor John Stevens Henslow. In 1877, she married the botanist William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (later knighted), with whom she had a son and a daughter. Thiselton-Dyer belonged to a generation of English women who transformed their interest in botany into professional careers. She studied with the noted botanical illustrator Walter Hood Fitch, who was the lead artist for ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine''. After Fitch resigned from the magazine in 1877 following a dispute with her father—for whom Fitch had been preparing illustrations for several books—Thiselton-Dyer stepped in. She rendered almost 100 illustrations for publication during the period 1878–1880, helping to keep the magazine viable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Georgia
, mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , established = , endowment = $1.8 billion (2021)As of June 30, 2021. , type = Public flagship land-grant research university , parent = University System of Georgia , accreditation = SACS , academic_affiliation = , president = Jere W. Morehead , provost = S. Jack Hu , city = Athens , state=Georgia , country = United States , coordinates = , faculty = 3,119 , students = 40,118 (fall 2021) , undergrad = 30,166 (fall 2021) , postgrad = 9,952 (fall 2021) , free_label2 = Newspaper , free2 = '' The Red & Black'' , campus = Midsize city / College town , campus_size = (main campus) (total) , colors = , sports_nickname = Bulldogs , sporting_affiliations = NCAA Division I FBS – SEC , mascot = Uga X (live English Bulldo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a Virtual volunteering, volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. , Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks. The releases are available in Text file, plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket, MOBI, and Plucker wherever possible. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available. There are multiple affiliated projects that provide additional content, including region- and language-specific works. Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders, an Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing in 2007.About Wiley-Blackwell John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Wiley-Blackwell is now an imprint that publishes a diverse range of academic and professional fields, including , , , |
Glasgow University Library
Glasgow University Library in Scotland is one of the oldest and largest university libraries in Europe. At the turn of the 21st century, the main library building itself held 1,347,000 catalogued print books, and 53,300 journals. In total, the university library system including branch libraries now holds approximately 2.5 million books and journals, along with access to 1,853,000 e-books, and over 50,000 e-journals. The University also holds extensive archival material in a separate building. This includes the Scottish Business Archive, which alone amounts to 6.2 kilometers of manuscripts. The current 12-storey building, opened in 1968, is a prominent landmark in Glasgow's West End, and its distinctive outline can be seen from several kilometers around. In 2014, there were over 1.7 million visits made to the library. History The first explicit mention of the Library is dated November 1475, when the first donations by the University's Chancellor, Bishop John Laing, were reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IPNI
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It includes basic bibliographical details associated with the names. Its goals include eliminating the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The IPNI also maintains a list of standardized author abbreviations. These were initially based on Brummitt & Powell (1992), but new names and abbreviations are continually added. Description IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Index Kewensis), The Harvard University Herbaria (Gray Herbarium Index), and the Australian National Herbarium ( APNI). The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information. The stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Horticultural Magazines
This is a list of notable magazines devoted to horticulture and gardening. Canada * ''Garden Culture'' * '' Greenhouse Canada'' * '' Garden Making'' United Kingdom * '' Amateur Gardening'' - monthly, published by IPC * '' BBC Gardeners' World'' * ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' (1787) - now published by Kew Gardens * '' The Garden'' - from 1866 as ''The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society'', under this title since 1975 * ''Garden Culture'' - quarterly, published by GC Publishers * ''The Gardeners' Chronicle'' (1841) - now part of ''Horticulture Week'' * ''Horticulture Week'' * ''The Plantsman'' (1979) - quarterly, published by the Royal Horticultural Society * ''The Orchid Review'' (1893) - quarterly, published by the Royal Horticultural Society United States * '' Arnoldia'' - quarterly, published by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Fine Gardening- bimonthly, published bThe Taunton Press, Inc* ''Horticulture Magazine'' - originally a journal of the Massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett. The organisation manages botanic gardens at Kew in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, and at Wakehurst, a National Trust property in Sussex which is home to the internationally important Millennium Seed Bank, whose scientists work with partner organisations in more than 95 countries. Kew, jointly with the Forestry Commission, founded Bedgebury National Pinetum in Kent in 1923, specialising in growing conifers. In 1994, the Castle Howard Arboretum Trust, which runs the Yorkshire Arboretum, was formed as a partnership between Kew and the Castle Howard Estate. In 2019, the organisation had 2,316,699 public visitors at Kew, and 312,813 at Wakehurst. Its site at Kew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Ross-Craig
Stella Ross-Craig (19 March 1906 – 6 February 2006) was an English illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora (plants), flora. Early life and education Ross-Craig was born in Aldershot in 1906; her parents were Scottish and her father was a chemist. Interested in botany from her youth, she studied at the Thanet Art School and attended drawing classes at the Chelsea Polytechnic. Career In 1929, she began work as a botanical illustrator and taxonomist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew Gardens and was a contributor to ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' and ''Hooker's Icones Plantarum, Icones Plantarum'' of William Jackson Hooker. Her work drew the attention of Edward James Salisbury, Sir Edward Sailsbury, the director of Kew, who brought her to a publisher. ''Drawings of British Plants'' The first in Ross-Craig's series ''Drawings of British Plants'' was published in 1948. The series was issued as a set of inexpensive paperbacks retailing initially for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Snelling
Lilian Snelling (1879–1972) was "probably the most important British botanical artist of the first half of the 20th century". retrieved 13 March 2014 She was the principal artist and lithographer to ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' between 1921 and 1952"Miss Lilian Snelling" ''The Times'' (London, England), Tuesday, 17 October 1972; pg. 16; Issue 58607. Obituaries and "was considered one of the greatest botanical artists of her time" – "her paintings were both detailed and accurate and immensely beautiful". She was appointed MBE in 1954''The London Gazette'', 1 June 1954, Issue number 40188, Page 3276 and was awarded the Victoria Medal in 1955. Biography Lilian Snelling was born on 8 June 1879 at Spring Hall, St Mary Cray, Kent into the large family of John Carnell Snelling (1841–1902), brewer, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, née Colgalt. She and her sisters were boarders at a school in Tunbridge Wells. In 1915–16 Henry John Elwes commissioned her to paint flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Henslow Barnard
Anne Henslow Barnard (1833–1899) was a 19th-century botanical artist. Biography Anne Henslow was born in 1833. She was the youngest daughter of botanist and Cambridge University professor John Stevens Henslow and Harriet Jenyns, who was the daughter of clergyman George Leonard Jenyns and the sister of naturalist Leonard Jenyns. Her older sister Frances Harriet Hooker, Frances Harriet married botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, and one of her brothers, George, became a professor of botany. In 1859 she married army officer Robert Cary Barnard, who was the son of an old friend of her father's. They had eight children. Barnard's father was one of the first Cambridge University professors to give illustrated lectures, for which he used poster-size illustrations. Some of these were based on rough sketches by Barnard that were then finished by the botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch. She contributed plates to ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' in the years 1879–94. She also illustrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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