Botany in Literature - 45 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Botany and Botanists in (1) The Hound of the Baskervittes and (2) The Lost World and Other Stories - Naturalism and Doyle's oscillation between Botany, Zoology (and Entomology)

摘要

I established in the previous issue of BSBI News (105: 22-24) that Sherlock Holmes, despite apparent nil knowledge of certain subjects in Doyle's first Holmes story, often acquired, as his character developed, an interest in them in later adventures.It can also be seen that if he did not acquire the interest personally then another character was suffused with it which at least, in the course of his investigations, Holmes acquired a smattering thereof.