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SUMMARY:Books\, Botany and the Understanding of Nature in Eighteenth-Centu
 ry Cambridge - Dr. Edwin Rose\, Munby Fellow in Bibliography\, University 
 of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Prof. Nebojša Radić
DESCRIPTION:Many reading this abstract will be familiar with the New Museu
 ms Site in central Cambridge. However\, prior to its development from the 
 mid nineteenth century\, this was the location of the Cambridge Botanical 
 Garden. Founded between 1760 and 1763 on the grounds of the old Augustinia
 n Priory and funded by a donation of £1600 from Dr. Richard Walker of Tri
 nity College\, the Botanic Garden remains one of the first major scientifi
 c initiatives established by the University of Cambridge. In 1762 Thomas M
 artyn (1735–1825) was appointed as the third Professor of Botany who imm
 ediately embarked upon arranging the Botanic Garden according to the new L
 innaean system of classification that divided nature into kingdoms\, class
 es orders genera and species\; the first institution of its kind to be fou
 nded on Linnaean principles in Britain.\nThis talk examines how printed bo
 oks and herbarium specimens\, many of which are still held by Cambridge Un
 iversity Library and Cambridge University Herbarium\, were used to manage 
 information on the living plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden between 1
 760 and 1820. This was the responsibility of Martyn and a succession of cu
 rators who navigated between the living plants\, dried specimens and an an
 notated library of approximately 1000 volumes used to identify\, classify\
 , describe and arrange species represented in the garden and Martyn’s Bo
 tanical Museum. This system for managing information was designed to accom
 modate the increasing numbers of living plants\, specimens and seeds Marty
 n and his curators received from a global network extending across the Ame
 ricas\, Africa\, Asia and the Pacific\, many of which they cultivated in t
 he Cambridge Botanic Garden. \n
LOCATION:Online (ask organizers for link)
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