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[SR: 2927368], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780893274795], The New York Botanical Garden Press, The New York Botanical Garden Press, Book, [PU: The New York Botanical Garden Press], The New York Botanical Garden Press, In the 1890s botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton united New York City's private Gilded Age wealth with the expertise of its increasingly well-respected scientific community in order to realize his vision of a world-class botanical research institution situated within the landscaped confines of a newly annexed Bronx park. The resulting New York Botanical Garden was constructed, in part with municipal funds, as a grand and prestigious outdoor urban space for the enjoyment and education of a wide citizen base. Britton's foremost concern, however, was the establishment of a New York venue for botanical science. Convinced of the necessity of scientific independence from European centers of knowledge, Britton used the Botanical Garden to create a decidedly American place for the practice of New World botany by mounting a series of expeditions that catalogued the flora of the Western Hemisphere, most significantly the US colony of Puerto Rico. Britton sought to position the Garden to take advantage of the emerging philanthropic support of practical science at that time; in doing so, he emphasized the needs of a scientific institution over those of a picturesque public park. Britton's success in establishing the Garden illustrates the ways in which taxonomic botany remained a priority among scientific endeavors into the twentieth century and beyond. Today, thanks to this auspicious beginning, The New York Botanical Garden ranks among the most important institutions, both for New York City and the botanical world., 14278871, State & Local, 4853, United States, 4808, Americas, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 13521, Botany, 13469, Biological Sciences, 75, Science & Math, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 0893274798

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ISBN: 9780893274795

Britton's Botanical Empire: The New York Botanical Garden and American Botany, 1888-1929 Hardcover New Books, NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

ISBN: 0893274798

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