Book Description

"This book tells the story of botany in South Yorkshire from the 16th to the late 20th centuries and complements the recently published South Yorkshire plant atlas in providing additional and more detailed accounts of botanists, their lives and their work than was possible to include in the Plant atlas, together with many illustrations of people, manuscripts, printed sources and herbarium sheets, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of the area's botanical literature. The work also includes the first ever published transcription of the Flora Sheffieldiensis of Jonathan Salt. This seminal work was compiled around 1800 and is of fundamental importance to the history of botany not only in Yorkshire, but also in Derbyshire and was quoted extensively by F.A. Lees in his Flora of West Yorkshire. It is the earliest surviving comprehensive account of the flora, including the mosses, fungi, algae and lichens, of Sheffield and the surrounding area."--P. [4] of cover.