A Greater Prize Than Gold: Augustus Oldfield, 19Th Century Botanical Collector And Ethnographer In Australia

The definitive work on this most prestigious 19th-century English botanist and zoologist who collected in the south-west and Murchison districts of Western Australia in the 1850s and 1860s, and earlier extensively in Tasmania, his collections being sent to the Melbourne botanical gardens and to Kew Gardens. London.This work embraces Augustus Oldfield?s family background, his formative years and his life in the countries of birth and adoption. Emphasis has been placed on his dealings with the taxonomists to whom he sent his specimens, his income-earning occupations, his collecting and other natural history activities, and the geographical, economic and socio-cultural contexts in which he was operating. Along the way we discovered that his interests extended beyond collecting plants to plant biology, zoology, anthropology and contemporary natural philosophy.

• | Author: M. Helen Henderson, William G. Henderson
• | Publisher: The Book Reality Experience
• | Publication Date: Aug 16, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 552 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0648222233
• | ISBN-13: 9780648222231