Kew Gardens
Or, A Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew

A single-volume reissue of two 1858 guides to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, by their first full-time director.

William Jackson Hooker (Author)

9781108065450, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 September 2013

160 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 0.9 cm, 0.21 kg

The eminent British botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) expanded and developed the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a world-leading centre of research and conservation. Appointed its first full-time director in 1841, Hooker came to Kew following a highly successful period in the chair of botany at Glasgow University. He quickly began to extend the gardens, arranging for the building of the now famous Palm House and establishing the Museum of Economic Botany. This volume reissues Hooker's popular guides to the gardens (sixteenth edition) and to the museum (third edition), both published in 1858. Illustrated throughout, these documents reveal the areas and specimens accessible to a receptive Victorian public. Hooker's ten volumes of Icones Plantarum (1837–54) have also been reissued in this series, along with many works by his son and equally accomplished successor, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911).

Preface
Kew Gardens
Index
Preface
The Museum of Economic Botany
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]