‘I Took Every Possible Care to Have Them Well Preserved’: Travelling Plants and Networks of Collection from India to England in the Letters of William Roxburgh to Sir James Edward Smith

The final decades of the eighteenth century saw the significant expansion of botanical propagation and collections across the globe, both as an aesthetic corollary and to provide the underpinning resources for imperialism. The focus of this article is the development of the network between botanists...

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Hlavní autor: Kathryn Walchester
Médium: Článek
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: MDPI AG 2025-02-01
Edice:Humanities
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On-line přístup:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/14/2/30