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- 1854-1869 (Creation)
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1 volume
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W.H. Campbell was a student of Robert Graham and one of the founding members of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1836, becoming its first Secretary.
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'A Catalogue of British Plants; including the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Characeae' by J.H. Balfour, M.D.Edin., Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow; Charles C. Babington, M.A.Cantab., F.L.S. and W.H Campbell, Secretary to the Botanical Society, 3rd ed. 1851; printed up and bound in such a way that it can be used as a checklist to record plants seen on various excursions, annotated heavily with lists and locations. Book is in very bad condition.
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English
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Book is in bad condition, the binding is broken and many of the text blocks are now loose. To be handled with extreme care with support.