Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University. This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer's renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca - an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical

publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean – and rare

plant specimens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild's Mule (the first artificially created hybrid plant). Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid botanists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants.

自1621年牛津植物园成立以来，牛津大学建立了一个杰出的植物标本、植物学插图和有关植物分类、收集和植物生物学的珍稀书籍的收藏。这些档案和花园中的活体植物是大学植物学研究的组成部分。本书介绍了过去四个世纪以来帮助我们改变对植物生物学认识的植物学家和收藏品，重点介绍了植物分类、实验植物学、建立植物学收藏、农业和林业以及植物学教育。重点包括费迪南德·鲍尔（Ferdinand Bauer）为《希腊植物志》绘制的知名插图，十八世纪关于东地中海植物的植物学出版物，以及来自标本馆的稀有植物标本，如费尔柴尔德的杂交植物（**个人工创造的杂交植物）。还有十七世纪的草书、巧妙的花园计划、植物模型和化石幻灯片，这些来自档案馆的物品都有助于讲述牛津大学植物学的故事，以及那些致力于植物基本研究的无畏的植物学家。