The Australian Botanical Liaison Officer scheme at Kew, 1937-2009 / edited by Alex S. George
- Bib ID:
- 10021354
- Format:
- Book
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- Kardinya, Western Australia : Four Gables Press, [2023]
- ©2023
- 352 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 21 x 30 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780645629514
- Notes:
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- " From 1937 to 2009 the Australian Federal, State and Territory Governments, jointly, stationed a succession of botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Their role was twofold: first, to service inquiries from Australia for information from the vast collections of plant specimens, literature and archives: second, to conduct research on their own special areas of interest. Fifty-two botanists spent terms averaging a year at Kew (one twice), with visits to other herbaria in Britain and on the Continent. The information gathered supported immeasurably the quality of thousands of scientific books and papers. Further, by updating the nomenclature on specimens (often unchanged since the 19th century) they improved the standard of collections both in the herbaria visited and in Australian herbaria. They formed associations with foreign botanists that often continued in their later careers. Much history is bound up in the scheme, in the people who held the post, in the progress of Australian systematic botany, and in the progress of Kew itself. This book contains an essay on the history of the scheme, and an essay on each person who held the post. It is illustrated with photographs of each ABLO, of staff at Kew, and of many aspects of Kew and other herbaria."-- Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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