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The Travels of Joseph Woods, Architect and Botanist, in 1809

Author: Joseph Woods

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Gerard J. Lyne M. E. Mitchell

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Notes

We are very grateful to Gerard Lyne, formerly Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland, Michael E. Mitchell, Professor emeritus of Botany at NUI Galway, and the Honorary Editor of the North Munster Antiquarian Journal for their kind permission to publish this material in electronic form on CELT.

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    Joseph Woods (1776–1864): Life and Works
  1. See the Oxford DNB, online edition, at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29935
  2. Joseph Woods, "An essay on modern Theories of Taste" [London 1808].
  3. Essays of the London Architectural Society, by Edmund Aikin ... Samuel Beazley ... Joseph Woods (London 1808).
  4. Joseph Woods, "Synopsis of the British Species of Rosa", Transactions of the Linnean Society 12 (1818), 159–234.
  5. Joseph Woods, "On the rocks of Attica", Geological Transactions 1 (1824) 170–72.
  6. Joseph Woods, Letters of an Architect from France, Italy, and Greece. 2 vols. (London 1828).
  7. Joseph Woods (ed), The antiquities of Athens. Measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett painters and architects, volume 4 (London).
  8. Joseph Woods, "Botanical Excursion in the North of England, Companion to the Botanical Magazine 1 (1835), 288–299. [Available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org].
  9. Joseph Woods, "Account of a botanical excursion into Brittany, in a letter addressed to the Editor", Companion to the Botanical Magazine 2 (1836) 263–282. [Available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org].
  10. Joseph Woods, Notes on Some of the Schools for the Labouring Classes in Ireland (Lewes 1841).
  11. Joseph Woods, "Notes of a botanical excursion in France in the summer of 1843", The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany, vol. 1 (1841–1843), December 1843, 785–801; 828–834; 853–865. [Available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org].
  12. Joseph Woods, "Note on Carex teretiuscula", The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany, vol. 1 (1841–1843) 1140–1141. [Available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org].
  13. Joseph Woods, "Botanical Tour in Germany", The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany, vol. 2 (1844–1847) 16–20; 33–42; 65–73. [Available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org].
  14. Joseph Woods, "Notes of a botanical ramble in the North of Spain", Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Botany 2 (1858), 111–125. [Available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org].
  15. Joseph Woods, The Tourist's Flora: a descriptive catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian (London 1850).
  16. Joseph Woods, "Some botanical notes made during a tour through a part of Ireland in June and July, 1855, with occasional remarks on scenery, etc., in a letter to the Editor", in Phytologist, n. ser. 1 (1855), 121–7, 156–9, 207–210.
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Gerard J. Lyne, M. E. Mitchell, A Scientific Tour through Munster: The Travels of Joseph Woods, Architect and Botanist, in 1809 in North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Ed. . , Limerick, The Thomond Archaeological Society (1985) volume 27 page 15–61

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The present text covers pp 15–61 (footnotes pp 46–61). The tour is complemented by Dillwyn's tour through the South of Ireland, available on CELT in files E800005-001 and E800005-002.

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The electronic text represents the edited text. Woods' quote 'to spy the nakedness of the land' was previously used by Laurence Sterne in his Sentimental Journey; the words 'the nakedness of the land' go back to the Old Testament, Genesis 42:12, in the King James Bible. The phrase 'Irish Balbeck', echoed by Woods on p. 33 of the edition, was applied to Kilmallock in Campbell's Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, p. 213.

Woods' journal has been segmented into entries in chronological order, though he does not give dates for every entry, and it has been synchronised as far as possible with the parallel account by Dillwyn. Occasionally abbreviations in the text (mainly referring to botanical terms) or in the notes have been expanded silently at CELT.

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Created: By Joseph Woods (1776–1864) Date range: 7 July to c. 18 October 1809.

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [LA] Many botanical terms are in Latin.
Language: [GA] Some words are in Irish.
Language: [FR] A word in the introduction is in French.

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