Global Plants
2,984,084 Objects in 68 Collections
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: African Expeditions
131
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: African Expeditions consists mainly of correspondence related to African expeditions of the nineteenth century. Also included are newspaper clippings, postcards, telegrams, and plant lists from various African Expeditions sponsored by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Most materials are dated and therefore offer insight into the timeline of the expeditions.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: Directors' Correspondence
31,025
The collection of Director's Correspondence from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew contains more than 28,000 letters, news clippings, specimen lists, and notes from various botanists of the latter half of the nineteenth century relating to expeditions and their findings. Authors include Thomas Baines, Sir William Hooker, H. H. Johnston, David Livingstone, and Cornelius Alfred Moloney.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Archives: Marianne North Images
383
The Marianne North collection is comprised of botanical and landscape paintings. Paintings are un-dated with titles that reflect the common names of plants. Scientific names of plant species and geographic location are indicated. The paintings span a great deal of North's career, including her expeditions to Brazil, Seychelles, Chile, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Natal, Colombia, Jamaica, India, and Madagascar, among others. Marianne North (1830-1890) was an English painter and naturalist best known for her botanical paintings and landscapes. There are two galleries at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew dedicated to her paintings.
SANBI Medicinal Plants Collection and Database
1,316
The SANBI Medicinal Plants Collection and Database (MEDPL) is a collection of photographs of medicinal plants from the National Medicinal Plants Database for South Africa (MEDBASE) created at South African National Biodiversity Institute, National Herbarium, Pretoria (PRE). It holds data on the most important traditional medicinal plants of southern Africa.
SANBI, Pretoria National Herbarium (Artwork)
2,542
The artwork of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) Pretoria National Herbarium collection consists of paintings and drawings of South African flora from 1868-2006, with most material created in the twentieth century. Paintings and drawings are plates from several volumes of Flowering Plants of Africa. Paintings are titled by genus and species.
SANBI, Pretoria National Herbarium (Slides)
3,766
The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) Pretoria National Herbarium (Slides) Collection contains photos from 1920-2006. Photos are attributed to the Biodiversity Institute, Burgoyne, Joffe, Trauseld, Wells, and other members of the South African National biodiversity Institute. Images are of plants in the wild throughout South Africa and are identified by SANBI botanists and labeled according to genus-species or family.
Sketches of plants growing about Plettenburg Bay on the coast of Africa, Wehdemann collection
157
These paintings and manuscripts are part of Natural History Museum's collection "Sketches of plants growing about Plettenburg Bay on the coast of Africa, Wehdemann collection."" Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann was born in Germany in 1762. He joined the army of the Dutch East India Company in 1784. Wehdemann developed a special interest in indigenous South African trees, of which he produced many annotated paintings.
South Eastern Africa Expedition Photos, Kew
105
The South Eastern Africa Expedition Photos are a collection of photographs taken by Andrew McRobb between 1995 and 2001. They depict plants in the field as documented in Mali, South Africa, Madagascar, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, and Tunisia.
Swaziland ferns and fern allies
214
Report on the ferns and fern allies of Swaziland. For each entry scientific names, other names, and range are included.
The Alfred Russel Wallace natural history notebooks and journals, Linnean Society of London
10
The Alfred Russel Wallace Natural History notebooks and journals collection contains manuscript materials from 1848 to 1886, most of them related to Wallace's travels to the Malay Archipelago, as well as a trip to North America and the Amazon. Taken as a whole, these texts represent more than 1,900 pages of Wallace's handwritten accounts of his expeditions, research topics, and collection contents. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a naturalist and explorer of the nineteenth century perhaps best known for his independent discovery of the theory of evolution by natural selection; his paper was jointly published with Charles Darwin's paper on …
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library and Archives
1,615
This collection contains books, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, reports, and paintings from the collections of the New York Botanical Garden libraries and archives spanning three centuries. The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is one of the largest and most important botanical research libraries in the world. The library continues to actively collect books and other printed materials relating to plant science.
The correspondence of James Edward Smith (1759-1828)
3,538
The James Edward Smith correspondence contains letters to Smith from many correspondents as well as copies of Smith's own letters from 1781 to 1877. James Edward Smith (1759-1828) was a British botanist and the founder of the Linnean Society of London
Trinity College Dublin Herbarium Library Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana
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Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana is the earliest of the modern Floras, consisting of 10 volumes of hand-coloured engravings of the plants of Greece and Asia Minor, authored by the English botanist John Sipthorp and illustrated by the Austrian botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer. The herbarium at Trinity College Dublin owns a rare set of 97 proof plates for Flora Graeca Volume 1 (1) and Volume 1 (2), published in 1806 and 1808 respectively, and including the frontispiece with the original watercolour vignette. This sumptuous hand-coloured book is probably the most valuable and beautiful botanical book ever produced, with only 25-30 copies issued. …
Trinity College Dublin Herbarium Library Stirpes Novae
68
Stirpes Novae is a flower book published between 1784 and 1785 by the French Linnaean botanist Charles Louis L'Heritier de Brutelle. It contains copper engravings of different plants by the leading botanic artists of the day, including Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Louis Fréret, while the rest are after well known artists such as J. G. Bruguière, James Sowerby, P. Jossigny, Claude Aubriet and others. The Herbarium in Trinity College Dublin owns 145 pages from this book, including 63 plates with botanical prints in black and white, which have remained unknown to scholars until now.
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
4,857
Useful Plants of Tropical West Africa is an updated and revised book of J.M. Dalziel's 1937 survey of economically important plants in West Tropical Africa. Each entry contains the scientific, as well as West African, name for the specimen in addition to any other common names. The text also lists the plant's uses and products, and includes a physical description of the plant.
Von Fintel Collection
812
The von Fintel collection of photographs from South Africa contains more than 800 photos taken between 1980 and 2002. Martin von Fintel works for the South African National Biodiversity Institute, KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium. Photos are mostly close-up images of plants in the wild, and photographs include plant identification information and locality.
Water-color drawings of Plants from South Africa, Canaries, Azores, West Indies, Francis Masson collection
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Francis Masson's water-color drawings feature plants from South Africa, Canaries, Azores, and West Indies. Mason was in southern African from 1772-1775, and was sent to the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the West Indies in 1776. Paintings are titled by scientific name and country of origin. Francis Masson (1741-1805) was a Scottish botanist and gardener who enjoyed the title of being the first plant collector to be sent abroad by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Watercolor Drawings and Pencil Sketches of Nigerian Plants 1909-1912, Talbot collection
84
The watercolor drawings and pencil sketches were completed by Talbot between 1909 and 1912, when he was in Nigeria. Paintings and sketches are identified by plant scientific name and collection locality. Percy Amaury Talbot (1877-1945) was a British botanist, anthropologist, and explorer enlisted in the Nigerian Political Service. He collected more than 4,000 plant specimens during his travels in Africa. .