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Description: This shows the Hortus Gramineus, or grass garden, at Woburn Abbey in 1817 which was the site of the first ecological experiment that was mentioned by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species. See: Hector, A. & Hooper, R. (2002). Darwin and the First Ecological Experiment. Science, 295, 639-640.
Title: Darwin EcoExperiment
Credit: G. Sinclair, Loudon’s Gardener’s Mag. 1, 14 (1826). (http://books.google.com/books?id=fF0CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA230&dq=Loudon%27s+Gardeners&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1826&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1826&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=snippet&q=the%20Duke%27s%20gardener.&f=false)
Author: G. Sinclair
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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