Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants by Barbara M. Thiers

Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants by Barbara M. Thiers is a great book on the history of herbaria with color plates mixed in the pages. It was fascinating to read how old explorations for commerce and nature expeditions resulted in so much information for the world about botany today.

The pictures of the explorers, maps, colored photographs of specimens and locations, as well as historical illustrated botanical plates all add to the great reading of this book. The chapter Herbarium Digitization was a fascinating read on how digitizing and modernizing collections help researchers worldwide.

Below are pictures from the book from the publisher (visit the link for more inside pages).

A truly excellent read for anyone into botany. While it is a little on the academic side, the pictures break up the text and people interested in biographies and history would find this a great book to read and to add to their library collection.

Book Info

• Amazon link: Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants by Barbara M. Thiers
• The Book Depository link: Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants by Barbara M. Thiers
• Timber Press; 2020.
• ISBN-13: 978-160469930.
• Hardcover, 304 pages.

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