Main entry:

Thiers, Barbara M., author.

Title & Author:

Herbarium : the quest to preserve & classify the world's plants / Barbara M. Thiers.

Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2020.
©2020

Description:

279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 27 x 23 cm

Notes:
Chapter on herbaria around the world discusses Australia, Brazil, The People's Republic of China, and South Africa.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.
Preface -- The origin of herbaria -- Herbaria and the age of botanical exploration -- Development of herbaria in the United States -- Development of herbaria around the world -- The future of herbaria.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2021

Summary:

A heavily illustrated history of herbaria from one of the world's foremost experts.
"Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grow around them organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source for data for their new role: understanding how the world's flora is changing. Barbara M. Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things on both the molecular and global scale can be applied to herbarium specimens, helping us address some of the critical problems facing the world today"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781604699302 (hardcover)
1604699302 (hardcover)
(electronic book)
9781643260525

Subject:

New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium.
Herbaria History.
Botany History.
Botany Pictorial works.
Herbiers Histoire.
Botanique Ouvrages illustrés.
NATURE / Plants / General.
GARDENING / Reference.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.
Botany
Herbaria

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Pictorial works
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Herbarium : the quest to preserve and classify the world's plants
Quest to preserve & classify the world's plants

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322617
Call No.: 322617
Copy: 1
Status: Available