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Friday, December 3, 2010

Bartram Specimen Books Online

Bartram's Airplant (Tillandsia bartramii)The Natural History Museum of London has digitized the specimen collections of John and William Bartram collected throughout British East Florida and those collections are now on digital display at the University of Florida website.

Take a look through these collections of plants collected over 200 years ago by the father and son naturalist team as they explored and documented to botany of Florida in 1765 and 1766.

East Florida Book One

East Florida Book Two

You can read more about John and William Bartram here and more about other early botanists who worked or collected in Florida here.

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