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Description: | A collection of five volumes containing British plant specimens collected and mounted by Mr William Gardiner (1809-1852) in the 1840s. A Dundee umbrella-maker and poet, Gardiner also published the first detailed account of the Flora of Angus (then called Forfarshire) in 1848. Four of the volumes are from the series British Botany and the Natural Method of Arrangement - Vol 1 Flowering Plants; Vol 2 Sedges and Grasses; Vol 3 Ferns, Clubmosses, Pilloworts and Horsetails; Vol 4 Mosses, Liverworts, Lichens and Fungi. The fifth volume comprises Native Plants of Forfarshire etc. These specimens are the only ones definitely known to have been acquired by the University during Patrick Geddes’s time as Professor of Botany. The four British volumes were presented to Geddes in 1895 by the bookseller James Thin and the fifth in 1917 by Colonel Simpson. Other Gardiner material is held in the University of Dundee Archives and Dundee Central Library. | Format: | plant specimens | Subjects: | Natural History Botany | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | Mr William Gardiner | Contributor: | Acquired by Patrick Geddes 1895-1917. Accessioned by Museum Services in 2000. | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD061 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD060 | Format: | plant specimens |
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