Indian Forester, Scottish Laird
Title | Indian Forester, Scottish Laird PDF eBook |
Author | Henry J. Noltie |
Publisher | Royal Botanic Garden |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Botany |
ISBN | 9781910877104 |
Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820-1895) was one of the many remarkable Scottish surgeons who worked for the East India Company, but who used an official posting as a base for research upon India's rich flora, and recording it visually in drawings made by Indian artists. His particular interest was in useful plants, which led to the major work in the field of forest conservancy for which he is best remembered.
INDIAN FORESTER, SCOTTISH LAIRD and the CL
Title | INDIAN FORESTER, SCOTTISH LAIRD and the CL PDF eBook |
Author | H. J NOLTIE |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2016-08-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910877128 |
India In Edinburgh
Title | India In Edinburgh PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Jeffery |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2019-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000556611 |
Roger Jeffery in this book has brought together 10 original, well-researched and well-written essays which bring to life the presence of India in the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh. On the surface Edinburgh is a purely Scottish city: its ‘India’ past is not easily visible. Yet, from the late 17th century onwards, many of Edinburgh’s young men and women were drawn to India. The city received back money and knowledge, sculpture and paintings, botanical specimens and even skulls! Colonel James Skinner, well-known for establishing Skinner’s Horse, brought his sons to Edinburgh for their schooling. Though Sir Walter Scott visited India only in his imagination (and tried to stop his own sons going there) he crafted a dashing India tale involving Tipu Sultan. The money from India helped create Edinburgh’s New Town, Edinburgh’s internationally-renowned schools (whose former pupils careers ranged from tea-planters to Viceroys) and people who came to Edinburgh from India established Edinburgh’s second women’s medical college. There are many such hidden stories of Edinburgh’s India connections. In this path-breaking book they are brought to life, using novel approaches to look at Edinburgh’s past, to see it as an imperial city, a city for which India held a special place. Focusing on the interactions between individual lives, social networks and financial, material, cultural and social flows, leading experts from Edinburgh’s history provide fascinating detail on how Edinburgh’s links to India were formed and transformed. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Naturalists in the Field
Title | Naturalists in the Field PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 1039 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004323848 |
Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.
Dividing the spoils
Title | Dividing the spoils PDF eBook |
Author | Henrietta Lidchi |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 470 |
Release | 2020-09-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1526139227 |
At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial military service. Combining approaches from the fields of material anthropology, imperial and military history, this book argues for a deeper examination of these collections within a range of intercultural histories that include alliance, diplomacy, curiosity and enquiry, as well as expropriation and cultural hegemony. As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, Dividing the Spoils explores how the amassing of objects was understood and governed in British military culture, and considers how objects functioned in museum collections thereafter, suggesting new avenues for sustained investigation in a controversial, contested field.
Geographies of Knowledge
Title | Geographies of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Mayhew |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1421438542 |
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In the Herbarium
Title | In the Herbarium PDF eBook |
Author | Maura C. Flannery |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2023-05-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0300271409 |
How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time—including changes related to climate. Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization of these precious specimens today. She charts the growth of herbaria during the Age of Exploration, the development of classification systems to organize the collections, and herbaria’s indispensable role in the tracking of climate change and molecular evolution. Herbaria also have historical, aesthetic, cultural, and ethnobotanical value—these preserved plants can be linked to the Indigenous peoples who used them, the collectors who sought them out, and the scientists who studied them. This book testifies to the central role of herbaria in the history of plant study and to their continued value, not only to biologists but to entirely new users as well: gardeners, artists, students, and citizen-scientists.