Discovering the Victoria Regia water lily, pt. I
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2013 · Education
Tatiana Holway, author of The Flower of Empire, discusses how explorer Robert Shomburgk and his crew discovered the Victoria Regia water lily in Guyana in 1837. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/19thC/?view=usa&ci=9780195373899 Tatiana Holway is an independent scholar and academic consultant with a doctorate in Victorian literature and society. Author of several studies of Dickens and popular culture, she also serves on the advisory board for the Nineteenth-Century Collections Online archive. (c) Oxford University Press Images: (1) Victoria amazonica. © Kit Knotts and Victoria-adventure.org. Used with permission. (2) Victoria Regia : or, Illustrations of the Royal water-lily, in a series of figures chiefly made from specimens flowering at Syon and at Kew by Walter Fitch; with descriptions by Sir W.J. Hooker. 1851. Public domain.
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