Thursday, January 27, 2005
Number 11 - Name That Botanist
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This English mycologist, cleric, and Fellow of the Royal Society has here been photographed circa 1865. Born on April 1, 1803, he died July 30, 1889. He described the fungi of the Wilkes Expedition, the H.M.S. Challenger, Charles Wright's North Pacific Exploring Expedition, Darwin's Beagle voyage, and many more from South America, the Arctic, Australia, Africa and every corner of the globe. He has left us a large body of published work. If you haven't already solved it, perhaps you can match him up with his photo of some 20 years later, shown on the "CYBER-TRUFFLE'S FUNGAL VALHALLA (PORTRAITS OF MYCOLOGY'S LATE GREATS)" site, linked to on the left hand column of this page.
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Happy New Year From George Lincoln Goodale
Here is a New Year's greeting from Harvard botanist and Asa Gray protégé, George Lincoln Goodale, to Charles Eliot Norton from 1896. He thanks Norton for the paper by Edouard Piette (1827-1906), probably his Les plantes cultivées de la période de transition au Mas d’Azil which appeared in l’Anthropologie, vii, no. 1 1896. Mas d'Azil is the paleolithic cave site in the Pyrenees excavated by Piette. Goodale is perhaps best known for having been instrumental in bringing the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants to the Botanical Museum of Harvard.
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BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HISTORICA BOTANICA!
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BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HISTORICA BOTANICA!
