Plants: Cultivators of Curiosity - Exhibit Case 1

Welcome to our virtual tour of the exhibit!  Had you been able to visit our reading room, this is what you would have seen on display in Case 1:

First Lessons in Botany : Designed for common schools in the United States

Wood, Alphonso

1850

Call #: Rare Book 580 W85

This textbook, published in Boston in 1850, would have been used to teach botany to students in “common schools,” or what we now refer to as middle or high schools.

The frontispiece and title page seen above are not from Augustana's copy of First Lessons in Botany, but from a similar edition owned by Harvard University that has been digitized and made available through the Hathi Trust.  You can view the entire book at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011617589.