Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Manual of the New Zealand flora
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
John MacKay, Government Printer
Place
Date
1906
Physical Description
xxxvi, 1199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Edition/State/Version
[1st ed.]
Subject Category
Provenance Details
Copy 108061 inscribed in ink on the title page, 'W. Townson Esq, with the author's complements, and thanks for the assistance rendered in the preparation of the work. T.F. Cheeseman.' This copy also heavily annotated with names and locations (additions and corrections for 2nd ed. perhaps?) and includes two sheets of notepaper headed 'Plants of Thames District, names, time of flowering etc.'
Copies 16336 & 16337 specially bound including note pages between leaves of text and heavily annotated (probably by Donald Petrie, see Te Ara https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2p14/petrie-donald), including pages full of notes and several loose sheets of notes.
Copies 060471 & 060472 held in Botany are Cheeseman's own copies and are filled with his handwritten notes.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Rare books--New Zealand--20th century]
Published under the authority of the Government of New Zealand. Includes index.
Associated Notes
Subject Notes
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman (8 June 1846 - 15 October 1923) was a New Zealand botanist. He was also a naturalist who had wide-ranging interests, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs (marine gastropod molluscs).... Many of Cheeseman's botanical publications paved the way for the publication of a complete Flora of New Zealand. In 1906 he produced the Manual of the New Zealand Flora, illustrated by his sister Clara Cheeseman. In 1914 he, Hemsley, and Matilda Smith created Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora. In some of his publications, Cheeseman speculated as to the possible origins of the New Zealand sub-Antarctic flora. He also had written an early paper on the naturalized plants of the Auckland Provincial District. Some of his early papers were about the pollination of certain species.
As well as his botanical research, Cheeseman developed the Auckland Museum, including what is probably the most extensive collection extant illustrating MΓori ethnology. He donated his own herbarium of the flowering plants and vascular cryptogams to the Auckland Institute.'--Wikipedia, August 2019.
See Te Ara for a biography of Thomas Frederick Cheeseman.
Collection Type
Reserve Collection
Botany Library
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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