Posts Tagged ‘Herbarium’
May 4, 2022 Luca Ghini, Charlotte Turner Smith, Maud Grieve, Margaret Leland Goldsmith, The Little Library Year by Kate Young, and Gail Carriger
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events Today is Bird Day! 1556 Death of Luca Ghini (“Gee-nee”), Italian physician and botanist. Luca is remembered for creating the first…
Read MoreDigitizing the University of Cincinnati’s Botany Collection in 2018: Preservation, Collaboration, Maximization
“Last year, Australian airport customs destroyed a herbarium collection because they were worried about bringing in invasive species. They were unaware they intercepted a priceless 200-year-old French collection on its way to the herbarium in Queensland. These kinds of tragedies can be avoided by going digital. And, if something does happen, at least there is…
Read MoreThe Biography of Indiana Botanist Charles Clemon Deam by Robert Kriebel
“Suddenly, Charlie quickly opened the drawer, pulled out the gun, and fired two or three shots through the open window, making some disparaging comments about the “canine ancestry of a rabbit,” which had been terrorizing his garden.” July 16, 1987 On this day, The Indianapolis Star announced that the biography of Charles Clemon Deam, the…
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