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Thomas Walter and his plants : the life and works of a pioneer American botanist / Daniel B. Ward.
Author
Ward, Daniel B. (Daniel Bertram), 1928-2016
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Bronx, New York, USA : New York Botanical Garden, 2017.
Description
221 pages ; 27 cm
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Forrestal Annex - Stacks
QK31.W3 W37 2017
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Plants
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South Carolina
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Nomenclature
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Walter, Thomas 1740?-1788
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Biography
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Walter, Thomas 1740?-1788
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Biographies
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collective biographies
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Series
Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden ; v. 115.
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Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. Heritage series ; no. 2.
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Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 0077-8931 ; volume 115
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Heritage series ; number 2
Summary note
This is the story of Thomas Walter, pioneer owner of a rice plantation on the Santee River, South Carolina, and of the plants that he knew and named. In the 1780s, with the American Revolution a recent memory, Thomas Walter, an Englishman by birth, gained title to a large plantation in Berkeley County, South Carolina, on the south bank and bottomlands of the Santee River, inland from the seaport city of Charleston. There he lived for the remainder of his busy life, raising rice, involving himself in the politics and business affairs of his agricultural community, and yet finding time to study the works of the great Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and to prepare a similar tabulation of the Carolina plants he found around him. Many of these plants Walter believed to be new to science; to document his findings he gave them binomial names and brief Latin descriptions. Walter's Flora Caroliniana published in 1788, was the first flora written in America that used Linnaeus' classification system and binomial nomenclature. Of these plants, a large proportion were indeed unknown to European botanists, and the names Walter gave them are used even today as the unambiguous scientific designations for many important American plants. [This book records] what can be said about Thomas Walter and his botanical achievements. This will be done in two parts. First, his life history is here reported and placed in context with the early Carolina political and agricultural world in which he lived. Second, a tabulation is provided of Walter's scientific work, of the many plants he discovered in the Carolinas, and of the taxonomic value of these names to the modern world.--Introduction.
Notes
Illustrations from Flora Caroliniana on endpapers.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Early records
The plantation
The war years
John Fraser and his herbarium
The Flora Caroliniana
Walter's botanical library
The Thomas Walter typification project
The inventory. Part one: Thomas Walter's new plant names. Part two: Other plant names used by Thomas Walter
Eponyms
Unresolved issues
Epilogue and acknowledgements
Thomas Walter bibliography
Plant name index.
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ISBN
9780893275396 ((hardback))
0893275395 ((hardback))
OCLC
993604573
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