Well known among his contemporaries for his unrivalled knowledge of
aberrant plants, Daniel Oliver (1830 1916) ran the herbarium at Kew
Gardens and held the chair of botany at University College London,
for which he was recommended by Charles Darwin. Although Oliver
never visited India, his expertise in Indian botany grew
considerably after he worked with an enormous number of dried
specimens rescued from the cellars of the East India Company. In
this book, first published in 1869, he sets out the basics of
botanical study in India for the absolute beginner. It includes
instruction on the anatomy of simple plants, lessons in collection
and dissection, and explanations of botany's often dense
terminology. Annotated diagrams appear throughout, in both
microscopic and macroscopic views. Rigorous and carefully
structured, Oliver's book remains an excellent resource for novice
botanists and students in the history of science.
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