Identificatie
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Titel
Datum(s)
- 1972 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Omvang en medium
Three letters and a description in one folder
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
Institutionele geschiedenis
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
After graduating with a degree in Botany from the University of Edinburgh in 1951, Andrew John Charles Grierson (1929-1990) was appointed Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A taxonomist, he specialised in Compositae and the Floras of Turkey and Bhutan. (From Obituary by I.C. Hedge and D.G. Long in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany, v.51(2), iii-vii, 1994 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7472248)
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Geschiedenis van het archief
A series of three letters and a description relating to the emergence of a new genus which were filed with the herbarium specimen in question - Klasea lasiocephala
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
Three letters and a description relating to the emergence of a new genus after some saussurea-type specimens collected by Siehe were studied and didn't fit into any genus in existence at that time. Correspondence between Andrew Grierson, Charles Jeffrey and Professor Wagenitz, and reference made to Peter Davis. October - November 1972