[Taxacom] Botanical posters as educational tools in the 19th century

Wed Aug 10 10:28:31 CDT 2011

Actually, not only 19th century - when I went to elementary and highschool in Germany in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century, these "Wandtafeln" were still widely used in various subject matters, such as geography, biology and physics. We often had to fetch them from the collection before class. Looking at the posters on the Harvard website is quite evocative of long school corridors, a teacher with a pointing stick and the sense of lack of understanding while marvelling at the artwork ... Regards, Heike.

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Dra. Heike Vibrans Lindemann
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--- El mié 10-ago-11, Mark Nesbitt <M.Nesbitt at kew.org> escribió:

> De: Mark Nesbitt <M.Nesbitt at kew.org>
> Asunto: Re: [Taxacom] Botanical posters as educational tools in the 19th century
> A: "'taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu'" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Fecha: miércoles, 10 de agosto de 2011, 7:46
> Many thanks to Lisa and Gerwin for
> these leads - Wandtafeln is clearly the magic word that
> finds these wallcharts. It's also led me to a web page at
> Harvard:
> 
> http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/Botanische_Wandtafeln.htm
> 
> which gives the full references for a couple of papers:
> Bucchi, Massimiano. (1998) Images of Science in the
> Classroom: Wallcharts and Science Education 1850-1920. The
> British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 31, No. 2,
> pp. 161-184.
> 
> Schmid, Rudolph. (1990) Wall Charts (Wandtafeln) -
> Remembrance of Things Past. Taxon, Vol. 39, pp. 471-472.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu]
> On Behalf Of Gerwin Kasperek
> Sent: 10 August 2011 13:21
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Botanical posters as educational
> tools in the 19th century
> 
> 
> You will find some records of German language literature
> (as well as a  
> link to a Dutch Web site about large colour representations
> of plants  
> used to illustrate lectures), in the Virtual Library of
> Biology  
> (vifabio):
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/433bxf9
> 
> The most relevant search term in German will be Wandtafel*,
> as used in  
> the example above.
> 
> Regards
> Gerwin Kasperek
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Gerwin Kasperek
> University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg
> 60325 Frankfurt am Main
> - Germany -
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Quoting Mark Nesbitt <M.Nesbitt at kew.org>:
> 
> > One of our PhD students, Caroline Cornish, is
> researching the large  
> > botanical illustrations that used to hang in the old
> Kew Museums.  
> > There's a blog post at:
> > http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/mysterious-hanging-diagrams.htm
> >
> > and high-resolution images of the museum interior,
> showing the posters, at:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/kewonflickr/sets/72157627361941734/
> >
> > Some of these might be original works of art, but I
> suspect some  
> > were prints produced for educational use.
> >
> > We can't find any examples of 19th century (1850-1900)
> botanical  
> > posters in collections at Kew or elsewhere, nor any
> literature on  
> > their use in education.
> >
> > Does anyone recognise any of the posters, or know of
> any useful  
> > literature? It's possible that some prints came from
> central Europe  
> > and might be familiar to botanists there.
> >
> > Mark
> > m.nesbitt at kew.org
> >
> > Dr Mark Nesbitt FLS
> > Curator, Economic Botany Collection
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