Berthold Carl Seemann collection, 1847-1860.

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Berthold Carl Seemann collection, 1847-1860.

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This collection consists of photocopies made at the library at Kew Gardens that describe herbarium collections made by Seemann in Panama while on the H.M.S. Herald. Type photographs of these collections are at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The actual documents are diary entries from the voyage of the Herald and his letters, 1847-66, to William Jackson Hooker.

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Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H Raven Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7807944

Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H Raven Library

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Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became ...

Missouri botanical garden

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Seemann, Berthold, 1825-1871

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Berthold Seemann conducted field work on flora of Nevada, 1848-1853. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_104_pid_EACP103 Botanist and collector; a German, he was the naturalist on the expedition of the H.M.S. Herald (1845-1851). From the description of Berthold Carl Seemann collection, 1847-1860. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61772640 ...

Herald (Ship : 1845-1861)

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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