Research Catalog

Title

Richard Spruce (1817-1893) : botanist and explorer / edited by M.R.D. Seaward and S.M.D. FitzGerald.

Publication

[Richmond, Surrey] : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Seaward, M. R. D.
• FitzGerald, S. M. D. (Sylvia M. D.)
• Linnean Society of London
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Richard Spruce Centennial Conference (1993 : York, England)

Description

i, 359 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

• Richard Spruce, botanist and explorer
• Spruce : botanist and explorer

Subject

• Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893 > Congresses
• Botanists > Great Britain > Biography > Congresses
• Botany > Amazon River Region > Congresses
• Plant collecting > Amazon River Region > History > Congresses
• Scientific expeditions > Amazon River Region > History > Congresses
• Botany > Great Britain > Congresses
• Botany

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

• Papers from the "Richard Spruce Centennial Conference ... sponsored by the Linnean Society and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew"--Pref.
• Held in York, England, Sept. 20-22, 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Bibliography of Richard Spruce [by] M.R.D. Seaward": p. 304-314.

Contents

Richard Spruce, the man / R. E. Schultes -- Thoughts and observations of Richard Spruce / W. Spruce -- Tracking Richard Spruce's legacy from George Bentham to Edward Whymper / J. Ewan -- With Humboldt, Wallace and Spruce at San Carlos de Rio Negro / D. M. Porter -- Bates, Wallace, and economic botany in mid-nineteenth century Amazonia / J. Dickenson -- Richard Spruce and Margaret Mee: explorers on the Rio Negro, a century apart / R. Stiff -- A contemporary botanist in the footsteps of Richard Spruce / G. T. Prance -- Richard Spruce: his fascination with liverworts and its consequences / R. E. Stotler -- Spruce's Hepaticae Amazonicae et Andinae and South American floristics / S. R. Gradstein -- Two letters from Spruce to Braithwaite about the illustrations to Hepaticae Amazonicae et Andinae / P. W. Richards -- Cinchona work in Ecuador by Richard Spruce, and by United States botanists in the 1940s / W. B. Drew -- Spruce's great contribution to health / P. Naranjo -- Orchidaceae Spruceanae: orchids collected by Spruce in South America / G. A. Romero -- The biology of mamure Heteropsis spruceana Schott (Araceae) / G. A. Romero, P. E. Berry -- Richard Spruce and the palms of the Amazon and Andes / A. Henderson -- Richard Spruce in northern Peru: notes on the cultivation of indigenous cotton / J. M. Vreeland -- Richard Spruce's pioneering work on tree architecture / S. Madriñan -- Relevance of Spruce's work to conservation and management of natural resources in Amazonia / N. J. H. Smith -- An anthropologist's debts to Richard Spruce / G. Reichel-Dolmatoff -- Richard Spruce's economic botany collections at Kew / D. V. Field -- Spruce in Manchester: Manchester Museum Herbarium / S. R. Edwards -- The Spruce collections in the Herbarium of Trinity College Dublin / J. A. N. Parnell -- Richard Spruce specimens in the Ulster Museum Herbarium, Belfast, N. Ireland / C. R. Hackney -- Spruce material at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh / J. Lamond -- Archival resources on Richard Spruce / S. M. D. FitzGerald -- Bibliography of Richard Spruce / M. R. D. Seaward.

ISBN

094764394X (pbk)

LCCN

gb^96081091^

OCLC

• 38862338
• SCSB-11637610

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library