Special Issue 6 - The Hooker Lecture: Robert Wight and the Illustration of Indian Botany

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The Hooker Lecture: Read at the Linnean Society of London, 8th December 2005 Robert Wright was the most important taxonomist working in South India in the first half of the ninetee nth century. A passionate advocate not only of Bower’s subject, Natural Classification, but also of the importance and use of illustration in his prolific publications on Indian botany. This special edition is a transcript of the 2005 Hooker Lecture by Henry Noltie. Special Issue No. 6 of The Linnean Newsletter and Proceedings of The Linnean Society of London Show more