Portrait of Joseph Hubert Priestley
Date
1924
Sitter
Joseph Hubert Priestley (1883 - 1944, Britsh) , Botanist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 64mm
width (print): 44mm
width (print): 44mm
Subject
Description
Informal snapshot of Joseph Hubert Priestley, full length in profile, shown holding a branch in the style of a fishing rod. Priestley is dressed in shirt, shorts and cap. Three other botanists can be seen in the distance, with a camp-fire in the middle ground.
The image is from an album of original photographs, with postcards and other pictures collected during the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Toronto, Canada, 1924. The album shows participants in activities of Section K: Botany. This page is inscribed above: ‘Holland Marsh, August 12th.’
Image inscribed below: ‘Prof: Priestley’.
An account of the British Association gathering, by R D’O Good and A B Rendle, appeared in the Journal of Botany v.63 (1925), pp.1-9. ‘The third excursion from Toronto was to the Holland river sphagnum-bog at Aurora…the time available allowed only a brief examination of the bog, which stretches for miles up a wide valley, but we were able to see one of the most interesting of the local plants, Sarracenia purpurea, in profusion.’
Joseph Hubert Priestley (1883-1944) British botanist. Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.
The image is from an album of original photographs, with postcards and other pictures collected during the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Toronto, Canada, 1924. The album shows participants in activities of Section K: Botany. This page is inscribed above: ‘Holland Marsh, August 12th.’
Image inscribed below: ‘Prof: Priestley’.
An account of the British Association gathering, by R D’O Good and A B Rendle, appeared in the Journal of Botany v.63 (1925), pp.1-9. ‘The third excursion from Toronto was to the Holland river sphagnum-bog at Aurora…the time available allowed only a brief examination of the bog, which stretches for miles up a wide valley, but we were able to see one of the most interesting of the local plants, Sarracenia purpurea, in profusion.’
Joseph Hubert Priestley (1883-1944) British botanist. Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds.
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