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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, lectures and broadcasts
Date: 1946-1995Reference: UGC 198/8Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence. Surnames, 'Flower' to 'Griffin'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2007-2008Reference: GC/253/A/34/4Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence. Surnames, 'Flower' to 'Julian'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2003-2005Reference: GC/253/A/23/5Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence. Surnames, 'Flower' to 'Grahame-Smith'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2006-2008Reference: GC/253/A/33/4Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Odd Sketches and Photographs
Date: 1880sReference: GALTON/2/7/2/9/22Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, publications
Date: 1938-2000sReference: UGC 198/7Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
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Drawing by Jacqueline du Pré as an infant, sent to Mourant
Date: 1961Reference: PP/AEM/A.267Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Pontecorvo, Guido Pellegrino Arrigo, 1907-1999, geneticistDate: 1917-2007Reference: UGC 198- Digital Images
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C19 Chinese ink drawing: Location of various boils
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The plant-book : a portable dictionary of the higher plants utilising Cronquist's "An integrated system of classification of flowering plants" (1981) and current botanical literature arranged largely on the principles of editions 1-6 (1896/97-1931) of Willis's "A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns" / D.J. Mabberley.
Mabberley, D. J.Date: 1987- Books
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The British flora, or A Linnean arrangement of British plants : with their generic and specific characters, select synonyms, English names, places of growth, duration, times of flowering, and references to figures / by John Hull.
Hull, John, 1761?-1843.Date: 1799- Books
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The universal gardener and botanist: or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in Botanical Arrangement, according to the Linnaean System, The various Genera and Species of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, and Fruits, that merit Culture for Use, Ornament and Variety, in the different Departments of Gardening, Plantations, Shrubberies, Nursery, Green-House, Hot-House or Stove, Forcing-House, Hot-Walls, and Hot-Beds: describing the Botanic Classes, Orders, and Characters of the Genera, with General and Specific Descriptions of the Species of each Genus; their respective and general Uses, different Methods of Propagation, and General Culture, in their several Departments. Comprising accurate Directions, according to real Practice, for the Management of the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Nursery, Plantations, Green-House, Hot-House, or Stove, Hot-Beds, Forcing-Frames, Hot-Walls, and Forcing in general. Describing the General Plans and Formation of the several Gardening Districts and Departments, as above; with distinct Arrangements, and general Descriptions of the various tribes of Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Fruits, adapted to each different Department; and Explanations of the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, Composts, various Garden Materials, and principal Utensils; together with full Directions for performing all the Practical Operations of Gardening in general, both in the various Methods of Propagation and Culture of the numerous Plants, and in the Management of every Garden District, and the various relative Plantations. By Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1797- Books
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The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees, useful and ornamental, proper for cultivation in every department of gardening; nurseries, plantations and agriculture. Containing The fullest practical Directions for performing all the different Methods of Vegetable Propagation, by which the various Kinds of Plants, Trees, Flowers, Fruits, &c. are raised and increased in the greatest Abundance and Perfection: Now First thoroughly explained. With the Compleatest Botanical Arrangements of all the Species and Varieties of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Corns, Grasses, &c. proper for Cultivation in every District of Gardening, Nurseries, Plantations, Green-Houses, Hot-Houses, and in Fields, all ranged in their proper Genera or Families; with the Universal Botanic, Latin and English Names of the Genera and Species, &c. and in the greater Part, short specific Descriptions, mentioning also their native Places of Growth; the Whole according to the latest Modern Improvements of the Linnaean System; comprised in Eight Divisions, viz. I. Kitchen-Garden Plants. II. Fruit Trees. III. Forest and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. IV. Herbaceous, Perennial, and Biennial Flower Plants, &c. V. Annual Flower Plants. VI. Green-House Plants. Vii. Hot-House Plants. Viii. Fields, or Agricultural Plants. The Whole forming a very necessary and useful Companion to all Gardeners, Nursery-Men, Florists, Botanists, Planters, Seeds-Men, Farmers, and every one concerned, either in the Cultivation, or Oeconomical Uses, &c. of the Vegetable Kingdom. By John Abercrombie, Author of Every Man his own Gardener. In two volumes. ...
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1784- Pictures
A woman arranging flowers, standing in profile to the left, and wearing her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon decorated with a blue bow that matches her dress. Coloured line block by Robé (?).
Reference: 33325i- Books
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The gardener's pocket-calendar, containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and ornamental plants for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and flowering-shrubs; Arranged In Alphabetical Order. To which are added, directions of what is necessary to be done in every month of the year By Thomas Ellis, Gardener to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
Ellis, Thomas, gardener.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Digital Images
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C19 Chinese ink drawing: 'Great Yang' boil
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The flora of Oxfordshire, and its contiguous counties, (comprising the flowering plants only) arranged in easy and familiar language according to the Linnæan and natural systems : preceded by an introduction to botany ... / By Richard Walker.
Walker, Richard, 1791-1870.Date: 1833- Books
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A catalogue of hot-house, green-house, and hardy plants; flowering and evergreen shrubs, fruit and forest trees, And Herbaceous Plants, Alphabetically Arranged, According to the Linnaean System, By Dicksons &c. Co. nurserymen, seedsmen, and florists, Edinburgh.
Dicksons & Co. (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: Printed In 1792- Pictures
China: Manchu women buying flowers for their headdress, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19654i- Books
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The gardeners pocket-calendar, arranged upon an entire new plan, in regular alphabetical order, describing the number of crops requisite for all the plants in the kitchen-garden, with The Necessary Directions for keeping a Garden in Proper Order, in every Month of the Year, and For having a Constant Succession of Flowers, With a general catalogue of plants and flowers cultivated in gardens.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: 1779- Books
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A catalogue of greenhouse plants, hardy trees and shrubs, herbaceous, bulbous-rooted, and stove plants, arranged by their Latin botanic names, with an English index refering to their Latin names. With a collection of the most esteemed varieties of fruit-trees, and seeds for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, flowering-shrubs, forest-trees, and for improving of land. Sold by Daniel Grimwood, Nurseryman, at Little-Chelsea.
Grimwood, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
The natural history of the Bible ; or, A description of all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, trees, plants, flowers, gums, and precious stones, mentioned in the sacred scriptures: Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged / by Thaddeus Mason Harris.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842.Date: 1824- Books
The botanist's handbook : containing in a tabulated form the chief characteristics of the British plants with the botanical name, the common name, soil or situation, colour, growth, and time of flowering of every plant, arranged under its own order / by W.R. Hayward.
Hayward, W. R.Date: 1887- Books
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The new gardener's dictionary; or whole art of gardening, fully and accurately displayed. Containing the most approved methods of cultivating all kings of trees, plants, and flowers ... / Arranged under the English proper name of each article. By John Dicks ... assisted by many eminent in the profession.
Dicks, John, active 1769-1771.Date: 1771- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: plants and flowers, garden views, fruit and vegetables, kitchen table items (March-July 2002)
Date: 22/03/2002-16/07/2002Reference: PP/AMI/B/802Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive