Making New Plants: A History
The botanist Hugo de Vries believed that science would allow plants and animals to be designed to order. What is the history of making new plants? A lecture by Jim Endersby, Visiting Professor of the History of Science 10 February 2020 6:00pm UK Time https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/making-new-plants This lecture examines the work of Hugo de Vries, a Dutch botanist who was one of the first to claim that science would allow plants and animals to be designed to order. It also looks at the early twentieth-century ‘Station for Experimental Evolution’ in New York, and at the utopian vision of Charlotte Gilman Perkins’ Herland (1915), a novel describing a lost world populated by women that took the form of a perfect garden, whose wonderful plants and lack of men were both explained by de Vries’ theory of mutation.
The botanist Hugo de Vries believed that science would allow plants and animals to be designed to order. What is the history of making new plants? A lecture by Jim Endersby, Visiting Professor of the History of Science 10 February 2020 6:00pm UK Time https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/making-new-plants This lecture examines the work of Hugo de Vries, a Dutch botanist who was one of the first to claim that science would allow plants and animals to be designed to order. It also looks at the early twentieth-century ‘Station for Experimental Evolution’ in New York, and at the utopian vision of Charlotte Gilman Perkins’ Herland (1915), a novel describing a lost world populated by women that took the form of a perfect garden, whose wonderful plants and lack of men were both explained by de Vries’ theory of mutation.