| Description Of Item | Title on engraved title page is 'Lectures on Botany by C Alston Volume XII'. Chapters are 'Introduction', 'The Object of Botany', 'On Vegetation', 'The Structure of Flowers', 'The Structure of a Seed', 'Of Studying Botany', 'The Division into Classes', 'The Authors to be Read' and 'The Description of a Tulip'. The flyleaf is signed 'A [Andrew] Duncan'. |