scholarly journals Botanic garden solutions to the plant extinction crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Murphy Westwood ◽  
Nicole Cavender ◽  
Abby Meyer ◽  
Paul Smith
Keyword(s):  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Plant Extinction

The Sarajevo Botanic Garden

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 209-209
Author(s):  
S WALTERS
Keyword(s):  
Botanic Garden

Harvard's Botanic Garden

1906 ◽  
Vol 61 (1577supp) ◽  
pp. 25268-25270
Author(s):  
Mary Caroline Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Botanic Garden

Isaac Bayley Balfour, Sphagnum moss, and the Great War (1914–1918)

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Ayres
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The United States ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Wound Dressings ◽  
Sphagnum Moss ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Sphagnum Bog ◽  
The Great War

Isaac Bayley Balfour was a systematist specializing in Sino-Himalayan plants. He enjoyed a long and exceptionally distinguished academic career yet he was knighted, in 1920, “for services in connection with the war”. Together with an Edinburgh surgeon, Charles Cathcart, he had discovered in 1914 something well known to German doctors; dried Sphagnum (bog moss) makes highly absorptive, antiseptic wound dressings. Balfour directed the expertise and resources of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (of which he was Keeper), towards the identification of the most useful Sphagnum species in Britain and the production of leaflets telling collectors where to find the moss in Scotland. By 1918 over one million such dressings were used by British hospitals each month. Cathcart's Edinburgh organisation, which received moss before making it into dressings, proved a working model soon adopted in Ireland, and later in both Canada and the United States.

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