Patrick Gibson reviews a book about José Celestino Mutis's botanical expedition to what is now Colombia, as well as his scientific and artistic legacy.
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Patrick Gibson
The Biostats Booklist
The Biostats Booklist is a crowdsourced list of statistics resources for biologists by biologists. Anyone is welcome to add their own recommendations to the list, be it a basic introductory statistics book or a how-to...
Hannah Brazeau
Strasburger’s Plant Sciences [Including Prokaryotes and Fungi]
Strasburger's Plant Sciences textbook reviewed...
Nigel Chaffey
Book Review – Pollination and Floral Ecology
Pat Willmer. 2011. Princeton University Press. £65. pp. 832. Any text book that tries to assess and summarise the whole of a multidisciplinary research field such as pollination ecology and floral biology is required to...
botanyone
The Windup Girl
We don’t normally discuss works of fiction here, so why make an exception for Paolo Bacigalupi’s book, The Windup Girl? I was a big science fiction fan as a teenager, though I don’t think I’d...
AJ Cann
Botanical terms – in words and pictures
How often have you come across a new – to you, the reader, that is! – term in a botanical text and wondered what it meant? Well, OK, maybe not that often, but when you do, how frequently have you then looked...
