Book ID: 65196
Seaward, M.R.D. and S.M.D. Fitzgerald (eds.)
Richard Spruce: Botanist and Explorer.1996. illustr. 359 p.gr8vo.Flexible cover.
Includes papers presented at a symposium on Richard Spruce (1817-1893)held in 1993. Twentysix authors discuss aspects of Spruce's life andwork both in South America, where he spent 15 years travelling andcollecting plants, mainly in the Amazon Basin, and in England, wherehe spent his latter years in working and writing up his collectionsof flowering plants and bryophytes.