Accession No

5439

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting Schimper’s Vegetation Map of the World (slightly modified by A.G.T.), by Shrubbs

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1610mm; height 1377mm

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

Description Notes

Schimper’s Vegetation Map of the World. Grid, with numbers down the right hand side. Map is coloured. Fifteen different shadings representing types of vegetation. There is a key at the bottom of the map. Types of vegetation represented are: Tropical rain forest A and B, Tropical Xerophilous woodland, Northern Coniferous forest, Temperate rain forest (evergreen), Sclerophyllous forest and scrub, Tropophilous summer (& Coniferous) forest, Steppe & Prairie, Savannah, “Park landscape”, Dry Steppe (transition to Desert), Desert, Tundra and Semi-desert.
Reference number in the bottom left corner.

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