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Augustine Henry

(Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930)

Augustine Henry (2 July 1857 – 23 March 1930) was a British-born Irish plantsman and sinologist. He is best known for sending over 15,000 dry specimens and seeds and 500 plant samples to Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom. By 1930, he was a recognised authority and was honoured with society membership in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, and Poland. In 1929 the Botanical Institute of Peking dedicated to him the second volume of Icones plantarum Sinicarum, a collection of plant drawings. In 1935, John William Besant was to write: 'The wealth of beautiful trees and flowering shrubs which adorn gardens in all temperate parts of the world today is due in a great measure to the pioneer work of the late Professor Henry'. (From Wikipedia)

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Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922

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Books about Augustine Henry:

1 additional book about Augustine Henry in the extended shelves:

Descriptions of some new plants from eastern Asia (1895), by W. Botting Hemsley and Augustine Henry (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Augustine Henry:

Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland (7 volumes; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1906-1913), also by Henry John Elwes

Additional books by Augustine Henry in the extended shelves:

Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: The artificial production of vigorous trees. ([Dublin, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: Descriptions of some new plants from eastern Asia (1895), also by W. Botting Hemsley (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: Douglas firs. (Dublin, 1920), also by Margaret G. Flood (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: Étude preliminaire sur les forêts de la Cochinchine : suivie d'un exposé des moties de l'organisation proposée pour le service forestier de la colonie (Imperimerie rey et Curiol, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: Forests, wild and cultivated (s.n.], 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: Forests, woods and trees in relation by hygiene (Constable and company ltd., 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene (Dutton, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: The swamp cypresses, Glyptostrobus of China and Taxodium of America, with notes and allied genera (Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1926), also by Marion McIntyre (page images at HathiTrust)
Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930: The swamp cypresses, Glyptostrobus of China and Taxodium of America, with notes on allied genera. (Hodges, Figgis, & co.; [etc., etc.], 1926), also by Marion McIntyre (page images at HathiTrust)

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