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(Hardback)
By: Luke Keogh
ISBN: 9781842467190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle, intending to observe the moth hatch. Ward created traveling glazed cases that would be able to transport plants around the world.
