Scientific Publications

Biography

John Lightfoot: His Work and Travels

Jean K. Bowden

Kew: Bentham-Moxon Trust and Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, 1989

A biography of the Reverend John Lightfoot, clergyman, botanist and traveller. It includes a catalogue of the Lightfoot Herbarium at Kew.

255pp. 245 x 155mm. Hard cover
ISBN 0 913196 51 7
£16.00

The Plants of Pehr Forsskål's Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabiaca

See Reference Works.

Holttum Memorial Volume

See Systematic Works: Ferns.

Sir Joseph Banks: A Global Perspective

Eds. R. E. R. Banks, B. Elliott, J. G. Hawkes, D. King-Hele and G. L. Lucas

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1994

Fourteen papers drawing together the many threads of Banks’s wide ranging interest and the world-wide influence he had in the progress and development of science, technology, horticulture, agriculture, trade and politics. 45 illustrations.

ii+235pp. 245 x 155mm. Soft cover
ISBN 0 947643 61 3
£12.00

Richard Spruce (1817-1893): Botanist and Explorer

Eds. M. R. D. Seaward and S. M. D. Fitzgerald

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1996

This book explores Richard Spruce's outstanding contribution to Amazonian botany. He explored South America for 15 years, from Para in Brazil to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, discovered thousands of plants new to science, and amassed information from local people on their uses and customs. His work is still of major importance to today’s botanist studying the plants of the Amazon. Well illustrated.

359pp. 245 x 155mm. Soft cover
ISBN 0 947643 94 X
£25.00

Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands

L. J. Dorr

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1997

Madagascar and the Comoro Islands have an unusual, highly endemic and rich flora. This single volume is a guide to the collections and literature relating to these islands' unique and vanishing plant life. It provides biographical and bibliographical information on over 1,000 individuals who have collected herbarium specimens in these islands. Entries contain references to portraits, itineraries, collecting companions and examples of handwriting, as well as information on the location of exsiccatae, herbarium specimens and manuscript materials. Illustrated.

xlvi + 524pp. 250 x 157mm. Hard cover
ISBN 1 900347 18 0
£58.00