The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage... to the Pacific and Bering's Strait...
The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage; comprising an acount of the plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition, during the voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait...
Beechey's voyage in HMS Blossom was intended to meet up with two overland expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage to the Pacific. Neither arrived, but Beechey made good use of the trip by conducting extensive scientific explorations along the northwest and west coasts of North America (reaching and naming Point Barrow, for example) and among the islands of the Pacific. The botanical collections were described in this book by Sir William J. Hooker, a British botanist who subsequently became the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and his co-author George A.Walker Arnott. The volume includes 99 beautifully line-engraved plates.
The volume has been re-bound in library-buckram; it suffered water damage at some point in its past and now shows cockling, staining, and mold damage throughout.
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