John Edmondson
Head of Science
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Specialist interests:
Taxonomy, Floristics: Plumbaginaceae, Poaceae, flora of Mediterranean and S.W. Asia; Garden History; Linnean Society's plant collections .
Key publications
Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, edited by P.H. Davis (1975-1988), vols. 5-9: provided several generic accounts in the Compositae, Boraginaceae, Gentianaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Menyanthaceae, Pedaliaceae, Polemoniaceae, Labiatae, Globulariaceae, Liliaceae and Poaceae.
Accounts of Poa L. and Bellardiochloa Chiov., in Flora Europaea vol. 5: 159-167, 1980.
Flore de la Nouvelle Calédonie et Dépendances, edited by F. Hallé, vol. 15: accounts of Limonium & Plumbago (Plumbaginaceae), 1983.
(with A.S. Gunn, A. Burt & D.M. Parker), Checklist of Flora of the Khnifiss-Tarfaya region (Morocco), pp. 41-45, in "The Knifiss Lagoon and its surrounding environment (Province of La'youne, Morocco)", edited by M. Dakki & W. Ligny. Travaux de l'Institut Scientifique, Rabat,
mémoire hors série, 1988 (publ. 1991).
T.G. Tutin, N.A. Burges, A.O. Chater, J.R. Edmondson, V.H. Heywood, D.M. Moore, D.H. Valentine, S.M. Walters & D.A. Webb (editors), assisted by J.R. Akeroyd & M.E. Newton. Flora Europaea vol. 1, 2nd edition. Pp. xlvi + 581. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.
Manual of Natural History Curatorship: Chapter 2: Acquisition of collections, pp. 11-27. Edited by G. Stansfield, J. Mathias & G. Reid. H.M.S.O., London, 1994.
Catalogue of the plant collections of J.E. Stocks from Pakistan in the Roylean Herbarium (LIV). N.M.G.M., Liverpool. Pp. viii + 23, 1995.
Phytosociological and biogeochemical observations on the Serpentinite vegetation of the Betic Riffian ultramafic arc of Spain and Morocco (with R.R. Brooks, C. E. Dunn, K. Targuisti, A. Asesi and R.D. Reeves). Ofioliti 20(2); 67-79, 1995 (publ. 1996).
Biogeochemical studies of metal-tolerant plants from southern Morocco (with C.E. Dunn, R. R. Brooks, M. Leblanc & R. D. Reeves). Journal of Geochemical Exploration 56: 13-22, 1996.
A late sixteenth century garden, fact or fantasy?: the portrait of George Delves in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (co-authored with Sarah Bird (see below), Susan Nicholson, Katherine Stainer-Hutchins and Christopher Taylor). Garden History 24 (2): 167-183, 1996.
Account of Aesculus (Hippocastanaceae) and editing of Malvaceae and Plumbaginaceae family accounts. European Garden Flora, vol. 5: 155-157, 213-229, 559-566, 1997.
John Blackburne of Orford Hall and his cultivated succulents (with Gordon Rowley). Bradleya 16: 14-24, 1998.
Index Nessensis (joint editor with Robert Marrs). NMGM, Liverpool. xi + 152 pp. 1998.
(with Claire Smith), "The Linnean Society's Smith Herbarium: a resource for 18th century garden history research". Garden History 27 (2): 244-252, 1999.
Distribution and metal-accumulating behavior of Thlaspi caerulescens and associated metallophytes in France (with Roger D. Reeves, Christophe Schwartz and Jean Louis Morel). International Journal of Phytoremediation 3 (2): 1454-172, 2001.
Richard Bradley (c. 1688-1732): an annotated bibliography, 1710-1818. Archives of Natural History 29(2): 177-212, 2002.
(editor), Codex Botanicus Linnaeanus, by H.E. Richter (2 vols.). Gantner Verlag, Liechtenstein, 2003.
The Liverpool Botanic Garden and its cultivated succulents (with Gordon Rowley). Bradleya 21: 290-38, 2003.
North American plant collections in the Liverpool Museum herbarium (LIV). Vulpia 3: 1-31, 2004.
Author of entries for William Herdman (pp. 946-7), Thomas Nuttall (pp. 1493-94), William Roscoe (pp. 1720-1721) and James Edward Smith (pp. 1834-1840) in Encyclopedia of 19th century British Scientists, edited by Bernard Lightman. Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol, 2004: 4 vols.
John Bartram's legacy in 18th century botanical art: the Knowsley Ehrets, pp. 139-154, in "America's Curious Botanist: a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram 1699-1777". Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004.
William Roscoe and Liverpool's first Botanical Garden. University of Liverpool Art Gallery, 22 pp., 2005.
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