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David J. Mabberley AM, DSc is Director Emeritus, Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Australia, Emeritus Professor in the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK. He was, consecutively, Director of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, Seattle, USA; Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK; Executive Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. He has had visiting posts in the University of Paris; Kuwait University; Universities of Peradeniya and Sri Jawarardenepura, Sri Lanka; University of Sydney; Western Sydney University; and Macquarie University, where he is Adjunct Professor. He has over three hundred and fifty publications, ranging over plant ecology and systematics to the history of science and botanical illustration. His most recent books include Mabberley's Plant-book: A Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses (2017); Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer (2017); Sir Joseph Banks' Florilegium (2017); Botanical Revelation (2019) and Citrus: A World History (2024).

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Looks at the revolution of botanical study and the evolution of the new science of biology in the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge.

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Series Preface
List of Figures

Introduction, David Mabberley

1. Plants as Staple Foods, Claudia Ciotir
2. Plants as Luxury Foods, Patrick Hunt
3. Trade and Exploration, Mark Nesbitt
4. Plant Technology and Science, Anne Osbourn
5. Plants and Medicine, Monique Simmonds
6. Plants in Culture, Roy Vickery
7. Plants as Natural Ornaments, Clemens Alexander Wimmer
8. The Representation of Plants, H. Walter Lack
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Notes on Contributors
   Index