Accession No

4912

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing a map of north Germany, with piecharts showing the species of sphagnum moss in peat bogs, English, early to late 20th Century

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1135mm; height 810mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘RECENT PEAT IN N. GERMANY (Overbeck & Schneider)’ (top, blue underline)

Description Notes

Black ink outline map of north Germany, showing rivers. Coast is shaded in blue watercolour. North Sea is labelled.
Small piecharts, about 40mm diameter, are marked at 57 locations (labelled only as 1-57).
Key in top right is a piechart with six sectors, showing that (clockwise from top) blue = Sphagnum papillosum, green = S. imbricatum, red = S. acutifolia, black = S. cuspidatum, white = S. subsecundum, and yellow = S. magellanicum. Names are in stencilled capitals, the ‘subs’ of S. subsecundum is stuck on over an error.
Fair condition, tattered at edges.

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