Accession No

4825

Brief Description

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Smith, M. V.

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1020mm; height 1268mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘PACIFIC COAST CONIFEROUS FOREST. CAIN.’ (top)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart showing the distribution of coniferous forest on the Pacific coast of Canada and the USA, by M. V. Smith, English, 20th century.

Chart shows an outline map of the west coast of Alaska, Canada, and the USA. Vancouver Island is labelled in the centre. National boundaries are marked with red dotted lines. Coastline is shaded in blue.
Yellow shading marks the northern humid forest, red is the California coastal range, and green is the cascade-sierra forest. Key is at bottom, outside the frame of the map.
Title across top.
Text is black stencilled capitals.

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