Posted in Harvard Botany Libraries on Sep 22nd, 2016 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. I have to say as we have processed this immense collection one of the things that never ceases to delight me are the names of various plants. For example Bear’s foot, which is named because it has […]
Posted in Harvard Botany Libraries on Jul 28th, 2016 Comments Off on Catnip not just for cats
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Plantas que curan y plantas que matan written in Spanish by Arias Carbajal certainly makes a splashy impression with its pulpy cover. The title translates to “plants that cure and plants that kill” and includes both theoretical and practical […]
Posted in Harvard Botany Libraries on Jun 9th, 2016 Comments Off on Is that a dewberry?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Going for a hike in France? Be sure to bring your favorite pocket atlas! Atlas de poche des plantes des champs, des prairies et des bois : a l’usage des promeneurs et des excursionistes was probably […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Botany Libraries, Houghton Library on Oct 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Three times as nice
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. We are lucky to have found three first editions of Traité du chanvre in different bindings as we continue to unpack and catalog items from Santo Domingo boxes. From left to right the images reflect the covers of these […]
Posted in Harvard Botany Libraries on Mar 20th, 2014 Comments Off on Superb specimens
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. Herbarium for pharmaceutical students was produced by Alban Edward Lomax, a 19th-century pharmacist that hailed from Liverpool, England. An herbarium is essentially a collection of preserved plant specimens typically arranged by a specific nomenclature and classification. […]
Posted in Harvard Botany Libraries on Jul 9th, 2013 Comments Off on Cactus cultivation
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Interested in learning more about cacti and where they grow? This French publication of Les cactées cultivées could be for you. The volume was published by the Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique in 1931 by André Guillaumin, […]
Posted in Harvard Botany Libraries on Jun 3rd, 2013 Comments Off on Mandrakes or men?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. According to popular legend when the root of a mandrake is dug up it screams and kills all who hear it. Mandrake is the common name for members of the genus Mandragora, it is entirely poisonous and contains […]
Posted in Harvard Botany Libraries on Mar 28th, 2013 Comments Off on Shroomer Publications?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. What to do if you are looking for the “ultimate guide for safe mushroom picking”? Frank and Cheeri Rinaldo have got you covered with Safe-pik, a flip book of handy mushroom identification cards. Measuring only about 2 1/2 […]
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