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Niger Flora: Or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa.

Niger Flora: Or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9781139004398
著者・編者Hooker, William Jackson (ed.),
シリーズ (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)
出版社 (Cambridge University Press, UK)
出版年月2011
ページ数668 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A00-3895>

解説

German scientist Theodore Vogel (1812-1841) joined an 1841 expedition to the Niger as its chief botanist. He died in the course of the journey, though not before taking extensive notes about the plants that he encountered. His botanical collection and diary were passed to the botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), who had been appointed as the first full-time director of Kew Gardens in the same year. Hooker edited Vogel's diary and observations and the resulting work, Niger Flora, was published in 1849. Because Vogel's period in West Africa was cut short by his untimely death, much of the work looks at the flora of the places the expedition stopped at along the way - Madeira, Tenerife and the Cape Verde islands, before giving details - including numerous illustrations - about west African plants. The works also includes observations on African flora by other botanists, including Joseph Dalton Hooker, William's son.