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… erendtchon's Plan-Drawings (1588) : Journal de Botanique IV Paris 1894 Andrea Amaglio 1615. a collection well drawn plants & the doctor Benedicto Rino. In Bibliothèque S. Marc, Venice. In 16th century explorers were content to take back seeds / drawings / plants when they observed Falconer to describe / Assates is very much a herbarium, stunts June r. botanical book [3th to last] Falconer was the first (only) who made a collection (using means) of industrial plants before the Etabl d'Est 1540-1550 Falconer was to Etabl d'Est 1540-1550 The Narratives & Anct's descriptions p295. The Narratives & Anct's descriptions

Hummel, A.W (1941) Editorial note The earlier pond Chinese herbal 973 AD. In copy & translation (On an account) Liao - 5 Chinese herbals see Sarton Delavigna Vol 2. 52 in which details herbals 11th, 12th, 13th century and beyond. p441 In 1245 herbal found Ping-yang, Shansi, 1245 AD. In Italy 7 copies of 10 volumes of works. Putten included Uprightness & Banana plant which were in the older newer edition. The herbal is as to a high pedigree Represents remains modern - only Materia Medica of Euphorbia petinencis Rep. for the first 1245. Ed. note Stating that the earlier herbals found in Europe were more than 5 cent …

Miall L.C. The Early Naturalist. Their Lives - Vak (1530-1789). London 1912. Ref. Wright. Popular Treatises on Science written during the Middle Ages, 1841 1012 Ibernamtanes thought that herbs grew in the dishes when the diseases they cured were prevalent. Ref. F.W.S. Roth. Bot. Zeit 1897 (Brunfels) F.W.S. Roth. Bot Centralbl. 1898 pp 265-271; 313-8, 344-7 p35 In the preface to the 8uprem Illustrationes L'obel calls attention to the fact that the mountain plants of warm countries descend to low levels further north. p41. Belon studied Botany under Valerius Cordus p55. There is a portrait of Belon prefixed to the …

Histoire des Plantes de l'Europe rangée suivant l'ordre du Père de Gaspard Bauhin 1766 à Lyon chez Pierre Duplain in two volumes exactly of the type of herbals 100 years before! The order exactly follows Bauhin's Theatrum Botanicum; at least I have confirmed this in Bk I of Bauhin which is the only one I have seen. (P.67) Woodcuts, some very good Bk I See p. 67 I Bulbous plants II Pothebs III Chiefly umbellifers IV Poisonous plants V Wall flowers & sweet-smelling plants VI Plants like Chamaedrys, hasty plants, annual plants, wound plants, & thick leaved plants VII Climbing plants & others VIII Plants with whirled …

20 Oct 78 RECEIVED OCT 26 1978 HUNT INSTITUTE Dear John, I am doing, jointly with Sandra Raphael who was formerly librarian at the Lumea does, a 'popular' book on illustrated herbals. With the exception of the 11th c. Prebost Morgan Dioscorides (and the Michigan 2nd c Johnson Papyrus fragment) I can find no reference to any others in the States, + I wonder whether you know of others. Could Zambarta Oates have any? I am thinking chiefly of herbals, not herbegies; but I suppose there might also be herbal mss. dating from after the introduction of printing. I am not concerned with unillustrated stuff. If you do chan …

Loan collection of herbals (Conference of Teachers) SW Polytechnic Jan 1904 Fuchsias - Small. Open array good from Delphinium Day Lay Fuchseis - Open array good M. A. Orosclinum 15" Cattley Open or closed woodblock f rose, said to be the original colouring Chesnus - Lottin. Open or sterile figs Dutch Dodens Folio in 2 columns. Very good Mushrains "Grey Cray Woodville's Med. Botany 18 cent 3 vol. col. plates Martins' Flora austria Collection of Curtis' plates carefully selected by Selwyn Innes.

… other varieties in that month Oct. 1st edn Mainz 1485 other German edn to 1499 Arbostaire - French translation of the Roman Herbarius probably about 1485 Le Grand Herbarier - French translation and glossary first printed in Paris 1526. Based on the Latin Herbarius De Frise Herbar - French translation of the German Herbarius, first edition 1547 Ortus Sanitatis - Mainz 1491. Latin translation may later days include some in German when combined with German Herbarius with a translation of the Latin part of the Ortus Sanitatis ENGLISH HERBALS BY AGNES ROBERTSON [Reprinted from THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, May, 1904.]

David Fairchild or Chester Arnold's memoirs of Percy Train. Two contributions concerned with botanical art deserve special mention. One is Richard Rudolph's story of how a Japanese botanist, Iwasaki Tsunemasi, adapted some 25 illustrations from Wiemann's Phytanthoza into his famous work on systematic botany, Hosokawa. This is another fine example of an outstanding contribution to the field of botany by a linguist. (Dr. Rudolph is a professor of Oriental languages.) The other article, by Alice Coutts, presents her selection of some 17 portraits of British botanists and gardeners, to which are added the author's in …

… g Quercus alba grew, and all sorts of little goodies and information about them. Now another way of thinking about herbarium specimens is this: that they are a fine set of historical documents. Many of the early collections in this country will bear the label Boston, Massachusetts, and I suspect that if we went back to Boston, Massachusetts right now, we would discover that the place that the man picked up this particular specimen is now completely covered with concrete and steel and yet we have some evidence that this was indeed a plant which did grow in that area before man came along and messed around with the …

… g Quercus alba grew, and all sorts of little goodies and information about them. Now another way of thinking about herbarium specimens is this: that they are a fine set of historical documents. Many of the early collections in this country will bear the label Boston, Massachusetts, and I suspect that if we went back to Boston, Massachusetts right now, we would discover that the place that the man picked up this particular specimen is now completely covered with concrete and steel and yet we have some evidence that this was indeed a plant which did grow in that area before man came along and messed around with the …

… Park in 1929. He has built up one of the largest private collections of Hawaiian plants in existence, numbering between 40,000 and 50,000 specimens. Two years ago he took his specimens back to the New York Botanical Garden, which contains one of the finest herbaria, especially of Pacific Island plants, in the world, and made an intensive study of Hawaiian plants. Recently he returned to Hawaii. At his own expense he has employed and developed several collectors and student artists, who have assisted him in collecting plants and making drawings of them. In 1930 he published an excellent "Illustrated Guide to the m …

illustration, as compared with the German "Herbarius" of 1485, which remains the high water mark in figures of plants up to 1530. The text of the Latin book is very different from that of the German. Each chapter begins with a description of the plant, its synonyms, and often something about its geographical origin, taken from various authors. The medicinal virtues are described in a separate section headed "Opera- tiones," and divided into paragraphs headed by letters of the alphabet, at much greater length than in the older work. There is little resem- blance, except in the synonyms; but of course the same auth …

Page 12 Ewan 1965 Flowers for the King, by A. R. Steele (review). Bryologist 68:135-137. [181] Evolution of Biology by M. J. Sirks and Conway Zirkle (review) Amer. Midl. Nat. 73:504-506. [182] French naturalists in the Mississippi Valley in J. F. McDermott, French on the Mississippi Valley, 159-174. [183] Letters from Charles Sprague Sargent to Reginald Somers Cocks, 1908-1926. Jour. Arnold Arboretum 46: 1-44, 122-159, 324-361, 411-444. (also issued as a collected reprint of the four installments) [184] 1965 Reference tools for the botanist. Stechert-Hafner Book News 20:33-35. [185] 1966 (Grant report on) An albu …

… that the book be illustrated entirely from live plants, but in the end only some one hundred of the more than 400 figures are from life. Here ( ) are a few photographed from copies of Mrs. Arber's book on herbals and other places. Compare this iris with that of a few minutes ago from the Herbarius Moguntinus. There is no doubt about the genus and not too much about the species. As Schoensperger copied it ( ), however, it was already much less definite. Note the mirror image resulting from the copying. When it finally appears in the Hortus Sanitatis of 1511 ( ) it is just barely recognizable. Or take again ( ) th …

Botanical Bibliography Comes Into Its Own THE BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS of the late Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt comprise a special library formally opened at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1961—and known as the Hunt Botanical Library. This is not a library in the conventional sense, but is an international center for bibliographical studies of plant science literature in general, and of systematic botany and horticulture and the history of the biological sciences in particular. The Library's administration, guided by an Advisory Committee composed of Trustees of the supporting Hunt Foundation and s …

me which got rooted quickly and is growing away merrily. It is almost in full flower now and within a week I hope to draw up a full description, make herb specimens and secure the necessary photographs. I am most glad to have your own description and I shall be grateful to receive photographs in black and white and in colour also pickled flowers you have promised to send. Instead of sending me all the herb sheets you have and also in Greenway's herbarium, I would naturally be fully prepared to accept a list from you of the various material with full details which could be included in herbarium material. This appl …

SYMBOLISM OF HERBS "And by the icon or image of every herb, man first found out their virtues. Modern writers laugh at them for it, but I wonder in my heart how the virtues of herbs came first to be known if not by their signatures. The moderns have found them from the writings of the ancients,--the ancients had no writings to have them from." Nicholas Culpeper 1616 - 1654 ****** The display is symbolical. In the center of the miniature garden stands Saint Fiacre, Patron of Gardeners. He is surrounded by herbs which are available to men the whole world round, men who seek the virtues associated with their use. Al …

… spensable for persons who would be proficient in this science. But before I lift my hand from the desk, as they say, I will also indicate in a few words how in my opinion that costly invention of engraving ILLUSTRATIONS in copper and printing them is now ending in luxury (and) the ruin, as it has of several kingdoms, so too, perhaps, of this noble science itself. For in the old days, figures were cut only on wood; these represented their plants elegantly, though not with respect to their smallest parts, as in the work of Brunnels, Fuchs, Clusius, Rudbeck, etc. At that time, too, figures were transferred by trade …

To be photographed for T.H.Goodspeed, Dept. of Botany University of California Berkeley 4, California. Nicotiana 245 (no.of Catalogue of the Herbarium as printed in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1906-7 pp. 96-112) fruticosa glutinosa paniculata rustica Tabacum specimen so named by Linné militaris pusilla urens no specimen so named by Linné but published in later ed. of Sp. Plant.

… Y UP TO 1550 It must be realized that botany did not exist as a separate science until very recent times. As a rule, in the past it has been the province of court recorders, poets, and physicians. Earliest botanical observations were those of the agriculturalist in the dawn nations of China, Assyria, and Egypt. Records of agricultural materials are to be found throughout Assyrian, Chinese and Egyptian court records, religious writings, and burial artifacts. Associated with these earliest botanical writings there are few known authors, The earliest author is probably Chinese. Shen Nung, emperor of China, c. 2700 B …