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Tables of Contents for Jupiter Botanicus
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Author's note
9
13
Part I: 1773-1805
13
112
Scotland
15
16
The Fencible
31
30
Preparations
61
12
The Investigator
73
8
A New World
81
16
Terra Australis circumnavigated
97
14
The Colonies
111
14
Part II: 1805-1820
125
114
From Liverpool to the Linnean Society
127
14
The Natural System
141
36
Sir Joseph Banks's Librarian
177
12
A lasting monument of disgrace to Governor de Caen'
189
14
The Scottish Chairs
203
16
`That stupendous flower of Sumatra'
219
20
Part III: 1820-1832
239
70
Banks's botanical heritage
241
20
The Museum and `the Molecules'
261
26
The Nucleus
287
22
Part IV: 1833-1858
309
88
`Heaped with honours'
311
26
Controversy
337
32
`Old Bobby'
369
28
Epilogue Robert Brown: the man and the scientist
397
12
Bibliography
409
20
Manuscript sources
429
2
Appendices I-IV
431
12
List of plates
443
2
Plates
445
24
Index
469