Our beloved Botany Pond has been part of the UChicago landscape and student experience for 121 years. First opened to the public in 1903, it was the result of professor John Merle Coulter’s vision of ...

1. The New World -- Native American agriculture -- New World explorations -- Puritan gardens -- New World herbalism -- Purveyors and plantsmen -- 2. Grains -- The ...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1975. "Annex: 'Renaissance humanism and botany,' Annals of science 33 (1976), 519-542 [and] 'Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century,' Scholarly ...

Series which tells the story of how people came to understand the natural order of the plant world, and how the quest to discover how plants grow uncovered the secret to life on the planet.