Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10953
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Vegetation sketch
Date
19th century
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 221mm
width (drawing): 134mm
width (drawing): 134mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Sketch of vegetation annotated bottom right as copied from 'The Vegetable Kingdom' by John Lindley FRS (1799-1865).
Object history
Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, collecting plants on behalf of botanists including Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker FRS and George Bentham FRS. He was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places from which he collected. Spruce was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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