The Flora Graeca Story Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant

by Lack, H. Walter; Mabberley, David J.

• ISBN13: 9780198548973
• ISBN10: 0198548974
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first scholarly treatise to tell the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, a monumental collection of drawings and descriptions of plants in mainland Greece and the Balkan Peninsula. Originally described by Diskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Balkan Peninsula were neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists John Sibthorpe and John Hawkins, with the help of illustrator Ferdinand Bauer, travelled the region and produced a class of paintings superior to anything of their kind in existence then. These were to become one of the most valuable treasures of the University of Oxford. Based on the original diaries, letters, and specimen, this fine work is illustrated with prints from the original illustrations which are still housed at the Department of Plant Sciences at Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Maps
Preliminary Notes
Dramatis Personae
A Short Levantine Glossary
Introduction	p. 1
Complexities of discovery	p. 3
Linnaean revolutions	p. 13
Sibthorp: the early years	p. 15
Bauer: the early years	p. 22
Hawkins: the early years	p. 27
Sibthorp: the first journey	p. 28
Hawkins: the first journey	p. 91
Sibthorp: the years between	p. 100
Bauer's work for Sibthorp and Hawkins	p. 105
Hawkins: the years between	p. 116
Hawkins: the second journey	p. 120
Sibthorp: the second journey	p. 146
Sibthorp: the final months	p. 175
The collections, drawings, and notes	p. 179
Hawkins: the adventurer at home	p. 187
The publication of the results	p. 191
Epilogue	p. 226
Biographical summary	p. 229
Bauer's pencil drawings of plants	p. 231
Bauer's water-colours of plants and their annotations	p. 234
Bauer's water-colours of animals and their annotations	p. 257
Bauer's patterns for the frontispieces to accompany the Flora Graeca	p. 264
Bauer's views	p. 265
The publication dates of the Prodromus and the Flora Graeca	p. 271
The taxonomic and nomenclatural novelties among the vascular plants published: in the Prodromus and the Flora Graeca	p. 273
The place-names used in the Prodromus	p. 283
The frontispieces of the Flora Graeca	p. 286
The engravings of the Flora Graeca	p. 287
Walpole's Memoirs and Travels	p. 309
Plants of horticultural and medicinal value with names based on Sibthorp's collections	p. 310
Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 319
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