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Plant Collectors In Kashmir


Plant Collectors In Kashmir
Ralph R Stewart who
 push-biked into Kashmir more than a century earlier details the contributions that Western experts made to Kashmir taxonomy
A view of Botanical Garden in Srinagar
I must be Rogers McVaugh’s oldest pupil. I did not know him until I was 70 and about to retire from Gordon College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where I had worked from 1911 until 1960, except for occasional furloughs in this country. When Rogers took charge of the angiosperm herbarium in 1960, following the death of ‘Uncle’ Harley Bartlett, his distinguished predecessor, he found that he had a legacy of some 150,000 specimens in bales and bundles in various storerooms. Some of these specimens had been in storage for fifty years. As about 30,000 of these specimens were from India, McVaugh looked around to find someone with a knowledge of Indian plants. A friend told him that I was retiring from Gordon College and he wrote to inquire if I were availab ....

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Niger Flora


Niger Flora
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German scientist Theodore Vogel (1812–1841) joined an 1841 expedition to the Niger as its chief botanist. He died in the course of the journey, though not before taking extensive notes about the plants that he encountered. His botanical collection and diary were passed to the botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), who had been appointed as the first full-time director of Kew Gardens in the same year. Hooker edited Vogel s diary and observations and the resulting work, Niger Flora, was published in 1849. Because Vogel s period in West Africa was cut short by his untimely ....

Kew Gardens , Richmond Upon Thames , United Kingdom , Cape Verde , Theodore Vogel , Joseph Dalton Hooker , William Jackson Hooker , Niger Flora , West Africa , கியூ தோட்டங்கள் , ரிச்மண்ட் மீது தேம்ஸ் , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் , கேப் வர்டீ , தியோடர் வோகல் , ஜோசப் டால்டன் ஹூக்கர் , வில்லியம் ஜாக்சன் ஹூக்கர் , நைஜர் தாவரங்கள் ,