Ernest Henry Wilson photographs of the expedition to Japan, 1914.

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Ernest Henry Wilson photographs of the expedition to Japan, 1914.

This collection contains 619 original photographc prints documenting an expedition to Japan by E.H. Wilson in 1914. Included are photographs of trees and other plants.

1.5 linear ft.

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Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930

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Ernest Henry Wilson was born in Chipping Campden, Gloustershire, England in 1876. In 1892 he was employed at Birmingham Botanical Gardens as a gardener and also studied botany at Birmingham Technical School and at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington. In 1897 he worked for the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew; in 1899 he was sent by the nursery firm of Veitch & Sons, to China to collect seeds and living plants. Wilson returned in 1902 and went on a second trip for Veitch, 1903-1906....