Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. : The botanical collections / / 2, : Le collezioni botaniche = / a cura di = edited by Mauro Raffaelli.

• Superior document: Cataloghi e collezioni ; 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Raffaelli, Mauro.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: Italian; English
• Series: Cataloghi e collezioni ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Pubblicato anche come documento elettronico in linea, modalità di accesso: WWW, URL: http://digital.casalini.it/9788884539564 (ultima verifica della risorsa: 24 agosto 2009).

The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University Press continues its series dedicated to the six Sections of the Museum. The first part of the volume recounts the birth of botanical sciences in Florence and the history of the museum collections from sixteenth century to today. Then follows the second part which describes the historical and modern Herbaria, for each of which the main events that went to their formation, the importance of the plants they contain and biographical information on those who built the collections are described. The third section expounds the other collections in the Botanical Section of the Museum, among which of particular interest are the wax models of plants and fruits, manufactured by the old Grand-ducal Ceroplastics Laboratory, the wood collection, plaster of Paris mushrooms and the eighteenth century still life paintings of fruits and vegetables by Bartolomeo Bimbi. Finally, the last part illustrates the importance that herbaria play today in modern scientific research, drawing attention to the fact that they are an archive that holds taxonomical, chorological and ecological information in function of the plants they contain, as well as historical-biographical information on the scholars who, through their efforts, built up the collections.

Table of Contents

PRESENTAZIONE | FOREWORD / Augusto Marinelli -- Rettore dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze | Chancellor of the University of Florence -- INTRODUZIONE | INTRODUCTION / Mauro Raffaelli -- LA STORIA | HISTORY -- Storia delle collezioni botaniche del Museo | History of the botanical collections of the Museum / Guido Moggi -- Bibliografia | Bibliography -- GLI ERBARI |THE HERBARIA / Gli Erbari storici e gli Erbari aperti |The historical Herbaria and the open Herbaria -- L'Erbario di Andrea Cesalpino | The Andrea Cesalpino Herbarium / Guido Moggi -- L'Erbario Micheli-Targioni |The Micheli-Targioni Herbarium / Chiara Nepi -- L'Erbario Webb | The Webb Herbarium / Chiara Nepi -- L'Erbario della Malesia di Odoardo Beccari |The Malaysian Herbarium of Odoardo Beccari / Chiara Nepi -- L'Erbario delle Palme di Odoardo Beccari |The Palm Herbarium of Odoardo Beccari / Piero Cuccuini -- L'Erbario Pteridologico di Pichi Sermolli |The Pichi Sermolli Pteridological Herbarium / Guido Moggi -- Gli Erbari Cecidologico e Teratologico |The Gall and Teratological Herbaria / Guido Moggi -- L'Erbario Centrale Italiano (E.C.I) o Herbarium Centrale halicum (H.C.I) |The Erbario Centrale Italiano (E.C.I) or Herbarium Centrale Italicum (H.C.I) / Piero Cuccuini -- L'Erbario crittogamico |The Cryptogamic Herbarium / Piero Cuccuini -- Bibliografia | Bibliography.