Description: Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.
Brief description: David Mabberley is a botanist and author based in Australia. He is Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK; Emeritus Professor, University of Leiden, The Netherlands; and Adjunct Professor, Macquarie University, Australia. He has written many books on botanical art and science, the best known of which is Mabberley's Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses (Ed. IV, 2017). He has carried out extensive botanical fieldwork across Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and South America. He has been President of both the Society for the History of Natural History and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, and was Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.