Book of the Week: The Botanical Register (1815-1828)
/The 14 volumes of The Botanical Register that Botanicus has scanned and made available online are my featured ‘book’ this week. The botanical images in The Botanical Register are well worth a look and there are approximately 90 of them in each volume. It is easy to look at just the ‘plates’ using the Pages list on the left side of the page. On the right side of the page is a control panel for zooming in or out and downloading. It is easy to move around the image by simply dragging the view window. I am gleaning images for my desktop slideshow to play on my second monitor while I write!
Botanicus is a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of digitized historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. There is a wealth of material on the site. A short list of some others I’ve enjoyed recently includes:
Orchid Albums from the late 1800s
Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen
The Botanist's Repository for New and Rare Plants
