Our beloved Botany Pond has been part of the UChicago landscape and student experience for 121 years. First opened to the public in 1903, it was the result of professor John Merle Coulter’s vision of ...

Dominion, demonstration, and domination: religious doctrine, territorial politics, and French plant collection / Chandra Mukerji -- Walnuts at Hudson Bay, coral reefs in Gotland: the colonialism of ...

1. The New World -- Native American agriculture -- New World explorations -- Puritan gardens -- New World herbalism -- Purveyors and plantsmen -- 2. Grains -- The ...

Janet Somerville started a manuscript on the State's early botanical history as a University of Tasmania research associate in 1958, but died before finishing it. The completed version was launched ...

Series which tells the story of how people came to understand the natural order of the plant world, and how the quest to discover how plants grow uncovered the secret to life on the planet.

AFTER fifteen years' interval, this admirable book has made its appearance in English. The translation does justice to the original, and to say this is very high praise, for the “History of Botany” is ...