Accession No

5432

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, depicting the Vegetation of the United States.

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1980mm; height 1370mm

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

‘VEGETATION
OF THE
UNITED STATES
Forest Shreve, 1913.’ (bottom right corner)

Description Notes

Map of the United States depicting its vegetation. Areas are marked by colours. There is a key in the bottom left corner. The key is for types of Coniferous foresr, Deciduous forest, Prairies, Plains and Deserts. A few cities are marked. States are depicted by broken black lines.
Inscription in the bottom left corner.

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