Richard Spruce, 1817-1893 : botanist and explorer

Title
  1. Richard Spruce, 1817-1893 : botanist and explorer / edited by M.R.D. Seaward and S.M.D. FitzGerald.
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  1. [London] : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ©1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Seaward, M. R. D.
  2. FitzGerald, S. M. D. (Sylvia M. D.)
  3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. Richard Spruce Centennial Conference (1993 : York, England)
Description
  1. i, 359 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Alternative title
  1. Richard Spruce, botanist and explorer.
  2. Spruce, botanist and explorer.
Subject
  1. Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893 > Congresses
  2. Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
  3. Spruce, Richard, (1817-1893) > Congrès
  4. Botanists > Great Britain > Biography > Congresses
  5. Botany > Great Britain > Congresses
  6. Botany
  7. Botany
  8. botany
  9. Botanists
  10. Plantkunde
  11. Expedities
  12. Botanistes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies > Congrès
  13. Plantes > Collectionneurs et collections > Histoire > Congrès. > Amazonie
  14. Expéditions scientifiques > Amazonie > Histoire > Congrès
  15. Botanique > Amazonie > Congrès
  16. Great Britain
Genre/Form
  1. Congress
  2. Biography
  3. Biographies.
  4. Conference papers and proceedings.
  5. Actes de congrès.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Papers from the "Richard Spruce Centennial Conference ... sponsored by the Linnean Society and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew"--Pref.
  2. "Bibliography of Richard Spruce, [by] M.R.D. Seaward": p. 303-314.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.