Thursday, June 27, 2013

Big Flora, Big Birds, and BIG (research) NEWS!

From the scholarship blog...

Hauser Sophomore Scholars 2013: Reports from the Field: Day 3: Big Flora, Big Birds, and BIG NEWS!:
...If you ask big questions, you’ve got to think big.  World’s largest surviving Victorian glass house big.  Galleries covered floor-to-ceiling in botanical painting big.  Hundreds of acres of gardens, palaces, lakes, and trails big.



“I hope…I may be able to see the magnificent Palm house at Kew.  I have never hitherto been able to visit the Gardens, my time being so much occupied with pupils & the duties of a parish, as well as, a young family of six children.” -- Andrew Bloxam, 1855 letter.

How about a building full of tropical palms big?......
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