Honoring Beekman and Rumphius
Subtitle: proceedings of the 2011 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration Symposium
By: edited by M. Patrick Griffith, guest editor and David H. Lorence
Contributors: Griffith, M. Patrick, editor of compilation; Lorence, David H., editor of compilation; Beekman, E. M., 1939-2008, honouree; Griffith, M. Patrick, editor; Lorence, David H., editor; Kampong (Botanical garden)
Series: Allertonia -- v. 13
Publisher: National Tropical Botanical Garden
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kalaheo, Hawaii
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Congresses; Ethnobotany; History; Botany
Notes: TItle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Rumphius and Beekman : proceedings of the Symposium for the 2011 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration / M. Patrick Griffth, guest editor; title: Ethnobotany : a 17th-century vision of our 21st-century, world introduction and overview / Bradley C. bennett; title: Contacts with Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense / Ghillean T. Prance; title: Dutch pre-colonial botany and Rumphius's Ambonese herbal / Pieter Baas and Jan Frits Veldkamp; title: The work of Rumphius and Beekman as a tool for drug discovery : examination of the Maldivian coconut / Eric J. Buenz and Brent A. Bauer; title: Dangerous plants in the colonial imagination : Rumphius and the poison tree / Michael R. Dove; title: The Herbarium Amboinense, from creator to translator / Henk van der Werff and Peter H. Raven; title: Economic botany in Indonesia from the Herbarium Amboinense to the plant resources of Southeast Asia / Elizabeth A. Widjaja and Kuswata Kartawinata; title: Thoughts on Rumphius and his plants : parallels with neotropical ethnobotany / Bradley C. Bennett.