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Author Thiers, Barbara M., author.

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

Publication Info. Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2020.

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  580.74 THIERS    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  580.7 THI    Check Shelf
Description 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.
Contents 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.
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. Know as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Thiers explores how herbaria emerged and have changed over time. She explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things on both the molecular and global level will help us address some of the critical problems facing the world today. -- adapted from jacket
Subject New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium.
Herbaria -- History.
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium. (OCoLC)fst00557172
Herbaria. (OCoLC)fst00955324
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 1604699302
9781604699302
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