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Book ID: 31168
BONEY, A.D.

The Lost Gardens of Glasgow University. 1988. illustr. VI,224 p. gr8vo. Bound.

In the eighteenth century Glasgow was considered to be one of the mostbeautiful cities in Europe and its university together with its Botanic(or Physic) Garden was its jewel. The author through the archives of theuniversity and other institutions, has been able to trace the history ofthe gardens from medieval times to their destruction in 1870 after theopening of the new university buildings after the old university and itsgrounds, which had suffered years of encroachment as a result of theindustrial revolution, were eventually sold to a railway company. -Contents: The Origins of the Gardens/ The Seventeenth Century/ TheGardens and the Medical Faculty/ John Marshall as Overseer of thePhysical Garden and Teacher of Botany/ The Gardens as a Place ofRecreation/ Alexander Adams as Head Gardener/ William Hamilton and HisContribution to Botany/ The Period of Decline/ The New Botanic Gardenand the Collapse of the Royal Botanic Institution/ Conclusions.
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Author BONEY, A.D.
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Manufacturer Christopher Helm Publishers, Ltd.
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ISBN 2240000311685
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