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Flora Australiensis #15

Open nicolekearney opened 2 years ago

nicolekearney commented 2 years ago
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Title Flora Australiensis: A Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory
BHL Title ID 141 16515
Title DOI 10.5962/bhl.title.141
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Example DOI 10.1017/CBO9781139096065
WikiData Q51414390
nicolekearney commented 2 years ago

Title suggested by @rdmpage: "Cambridge is minting DOIs for old content such as "Flora australiensis” e.g. Nepenthaceæ (CVII) - Flora Australiensis [and putting it] behind paywalls. On the one hand this is sad, but on the other hand it means we can harvest their metadata and add all of these articles/chapters/plates to BioStor and BHL, and thus make them available via Unpaywall."

nicolekearney commented 2 years ago

Book description George Bentham (1800–84) was one of Britain's most influential botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of Ferdinand Mueller (1825–96), a German botanist in Australia - Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 6, published in 1873, describes 20 orders of flora in the classes dicotyledon and monocotyledon.

Description from CUP title landing page.

rdmpage commented 2 years ago

@nicolekearney There are two copies of this book in BHL so next question is which one gets segmented?