Accession No
5644
Brief Description
botanical wallchart, depicting Polypodium longifrons fertile leaf, 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 978mm; height 654mm
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
‘Polypodium Longifrons’ (bottom)
Description Notes
Diagrams depicting sporangia on a fertile leaf of the fern Polypodium longifrons.
Two diagrams, both drawn, in colour.
Reference numbers are in the bottom left and bottom right corners. (Previous PS ref. was Q26)
No other labels.
Inscription is stencilled below the diagrams.
Pencilled inscription records family as “Polypodieæ” [sic] with the roman numeral “II”
References
Events
Description
Botanical teaching diagram depicting the fertile leaf of Polypodium longifrons.
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
FM:46010
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