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The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the world. The garden was founded in 1621 as a physic garden growing plants for medicinal research. Today it contains over 5,000 different plant species on 1.8 ha (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 acres).
British Phaenogamous Botany or Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants, was published in 6 volumes by William Baxter between 1834 and 1843, with 509 hand-coloured copper-plate engravings by Isaac Russell (an Oxford glass painter) and C. Matthews. These men were not trained botanical artists, but gradually acquired a ...
1621 – The University of Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanical garden in the British Isles, is founded as a physic garden by Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby. [65] 1624 February: The Bodleian Library takes delivery under its legal deposit privilege of a copy of the Shakespeare First Folio which it has bound by William Wildgoose. Having ...
The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period. ... the Sheldonian Theatre and the Botanic Gardens. ...
Harcourt Arboretum is an arboretum owned and run by the University of Oxford.It is a satellite of the university's botanic garden in the city of Oxford, England.The arboretum itself is located six miles (ten kilometres) south of Oxford on the A4074 road, near the village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire, [1] and comprises some 150 acres (60 hectares). [2]
The floodplains for Oxford's two rivers reach right into the heart of the city, providing a wealth of green spaces. The University Parks; The University Botanic Garden; Christ Church Meadow; Port Meadow; Mesopotamia; Angel & Greyhound Meadow; Cutteslowe Park; South Park; Warneford Meadow; Punts in Oxford
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the university's chemistry , zoology and mathematics departments.
Pages in category "History of the University of Oxford" ... University of Oxford Botanic Garden; History of Brasenose College, Oxford; C.