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Australian Botany
Specially Designed for the Use of Schools
by
W. R. Guilfoyle
Melbourne
S. Mullen
1878
#489
www.bibliopedant.com/2012/01/australian-botany-by-w-r-gui...
Dr. Jabaily's botany class at Rhodes studies the early spring flowering plants and makes pressings of spring beauty.
Sanding off some of the grey enamel for space weathering and damage based on photos of the actual studio model.
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The use of subtle, warm tones ties the overall feeling together. The composition is interesting, with the model's head in the center, but her body along the first third.
A macro of a pre-bloom sow-thistle (of the genus Sonchus). Found on the banks of the Severn near Gloucester.
I think that this is a botany bay weevil. If I'm wrong please let me know. Thanks for the tip lovebird!
Landing over Botany Bay gives cause to reflect on chains of events and how most history is not accidental, but coincidental. You should recall my reflections on the great works of Carl von Linné from my visit to Uppsala. Linnaeus as he is more popularly known gathered around him a group of disciples. One was Daniel Solander, a Swede, who accompanied Joseph Banks on the expedition of the Endeavour to the Pacific Ocean in 1769/70. Cook named Botany Bay in his journal after the many plants collected by Banks and Solander in that location.
I have no doubt that Banks had the money but Solander had the brains, and training from von Linné, to carry out the collection of new plants with which Banks is credited. The Banksia genus of plants carry his name. And so this image closes the loop between Uppsala and Sydney and should convince you that almost nothing in the process of advancement of knowledge occurs by isolated revolution but by chains of evolution. The only scent of revolution here comes from the imaginative work of von Linné and his obsessive pursuit of botanical classification. OCD or Aspbergers? Probably. But we owe von Linné a great debt for initiating the process that excited Banks and gave us Botany Bay.