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A botanical teaching diagram showing peristome of the moss genus Fontinalis (order: Isobryales). John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) and his son George (1835–1925) were both British botanists and were educated at the University of Cambridge. Though he modestly claimed to know 'very little' about botany, John Henslow transformed the subject at the University of Cambridge and redesigned the old botanical garden, which opened to the public in 1846. With his son, the Henslows illustrated over 100 colourful botanical wall charts for teaching and studying. These valuable collections are now at the Whipple Museum.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Cambridge

Title

Botanical Teaching Diagram of Fontinalis

Date

1827–1861

Medium

paint on cloth

Measurements

H 87.4 x W 66.1 cm

Accession number

Wh. 5133

Acquisition method

transferred from Dept Plant Sciences, Uni. Cambridge, 1994

Work type

Painting

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Free School Lane, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3RH England

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Artist or maker

John Stevens Henslow

1796–1861

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