Accession No

5128

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing capsule of Splachnum melanocaulon, by John Stevens Henslow, English, 1827-1861

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Henslow, John Stevens

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1827

Latest Date

1861

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 925mm; height 659mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, in 06/2008. On loan from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, from 01/1994.

Inscription

‘Splachnum’ (top right)
‘Melanocaulon’ (bottom right)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart showing capsule of the moss species Splachnum melanocaulon (Order: Funariales).
Four diagrams, all in colour.
Inscription is stencilled at top and bottom right.
Ink inscription at bottom right, apparently in Henslow’s handwriting, is partly obscured by stencilled one. Upper line reads “p...num ...n”, lower reads “Hedwig Sp. Mus. t.109” (Probably a reference to J. Hedwig’s Species Muscorum Frondosorum.)
Reference numbers at top and bottom left corner (relative to orientation of inscription). (Previous PS ref. was O48)

References

Events

Description
Botanical teaching diagram showing capsule Splachnum melanocaulon.

John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) and his son George (1835-1925) were both British botanists, and were educated at the University of Cambridge. Though he modestly claimed to know "very little" about botany, John Henslow transformed the subject at the University of Cambridge and redesigned the old botanical garden, which opened to the public in 1846. With his son, the Henslows illustrated over 100 colourful botanical wall charts for teaching and studying. These valuable collections are now at the Whipple Museum.
03/04/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 03/04/2023

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