The Botany of Speke and Grant Expedition - 1871
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A rare collector book from the Sweeney Library at The Kampong!
The Botany of Speke and Grant Expedition –
The Linnean Society Vol. XXIX, Hardcover (Rebound), 1871
The botany of the Speke and Grant expedition microform : an enumeration of the plants collected during the journey of the late Captain J.H. Speke and Captain (now Lieut.-Col.) J.A. Grant from Zanzibar to Egypt / the determinations and descriptions by Professor Oliver and others connected with the herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew ; with an introductory preface, alphabetical list of native names, and notes by Colonel Grant [with a description of petaloid monocotyledons by John Gilbert Baker] ; read December 7, 1871. Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892.
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