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Donated by Alain Arts, 2010, and autographed by author.
Author : Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780472068517
Donated by Alain Arts, 2010, and autographed by author.
Author : National Arboretum (U.S.)
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Arboretums
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1926
Category : National Arboretum (U.S.)
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Author : Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780761989479
A detailed account of the colourful histories of 13 visionary museum innovators, who transformed the 19th-century collections of curios into institutions that inform and instruct.
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Gardening
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Author : Edward Norfolk Munns
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Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Forests and forestry
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Page : 736 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Administrative law
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The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Country life
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Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Thomas R. H. Havens
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 082488289X
Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical sciences. The majority of plant species regarded as “Japanese” trace their origins to western China and the eastern Himalaya but are so indigenized that they often seem native today. Early modern scientists in Japan drew on knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine but achieved distinctive insights into plant life commensurate with but separate from their European counterparts. Scholars at the University of Tokyo pioneered Japanese plant biology in the late nineteenth century. They incorporated Western botanical methods but sought a degree of difference in taxonomy while also gaining international legitimacy through publications in English. Japan’s age of empire (1895–1945) was less about plant exploration and more about plant collection, for both scientific and economic benefits. Displays of species from throughout the empire made Japan’s sphere of colonization and conquest visible at home. The infrastructure for research and instruction expanded slowly after World War Two: new laboratories, botanical gardens, scholarly societies, and publications eventually allowed for great diversity of specialized study, especially with the growth of molecular biology in the 1970s and DNA research in the 1980s. Basic research was harmed by cuts in government funding during 2012–2017, but Japanese plant biologists continue to enjoy international esteem in many fields of scholarship.