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SUMMARY:Books\, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Camb
 ridge - Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Joanne Green
DESCRIPTION:In July 1760 Dr Richard Walker of Trinity College transferred 
 £1600 to the University of Cambridge for the purpose of founding 'a publi
 c Botanic or physic garden'. These funds purchased the old Augustinian Pri
 ory and its grounds\, what we now know as the New Museums Site\, land occu
 pied by the Cambridge Botanic Garden between 1760 and 1846. In 1762 Thomas
  Martyn (1735–1825) was appointed as the third Professor of Botany who i
 mmediately embarked upon arranging the Botanic Garden according to the Lin
 naean system of classification\; the first institution of its kind to be f
 ounded on Linnaean principles in Britain.\n\nIn this talk I examine how pr
 inted books and herbarium specimens\, many of which are still held by Camb
 ridge University Library and Cambridge University Herbarium\, were used to
  manage information on the living plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden b
 etween 1760 and 1820. This was the responsibility of Martyn and a successi
 on of curators who navigated between the living plants\, dried specimens a
 nd an annotated library of approximately 1000 volumes used to identify\, c
 lassify\, describe and arrange species represented in the garden and the s
 pecimens held in Martyn's Botanical Museum. This system for managing infor
 mation was designed to accommodate the increasing numbers of living plants
 \, specimens and seeds Martyn and his curators received from a global netw
 ork extending across the Americas\, Africa\, Asia and the Pacific\, many o
 f which they cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden and arranged accor
 ding to the Linnaean framework.
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