The encyclopedia itself is Ferns: British and Exotic by E. J. Lowe. It’s in public domain now. A PDF scan is available on the Internet Archive.
Ferns
Submitted 1 day ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Ferns were such a big deal in victorian Britain (and British culture/ empire), it was like their pokemon.
Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You could say they went down a…puts on sunglasses…FernGully.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhh
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The thing is, back in the day, you couldn’t just look up ferns on the internet, you actually had to go looking for information on ferns specifically, and it’s very likely that after a lot of really annoying visits to various libraries looking through botany textbooks, an author (or a group of authors) decided they were going to collate everything they found about ferns and stick it in one collection.
So when someone else comes along and goes “I need to know something about a very specific fern”, the librarian can go “You want that 8 volume encyclopedia on ferns over there” because they know that it has every single fern on the planet in there, and you don’t need to spend 8 hours looking through every botany textbook and making the room smell like cheap coffee.
What I’m saying is it was probably done out of spite, not genuine interest.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Whoever wrote this post has never talked to someone in a PhD program with autism.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
there are two kind of people in PhD programs, autistic, and undiagnosed.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah, you also have abundance of ADHD folks that are hyper focused on the only subject that they care about, or anxiety disorder folks who are worried about not achieving a goal.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if they did they never would have wrote the article because they’d still be there having a firehose of information blasted at them.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
with the titanic amount of fern species, you’re bound to have alot of material.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Idk a single sane human being who’s ever said anything remotely close to “everyone in the past was neurotypical”. Who is OP quoting?!
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You must not be around older conservative people much.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ADHD? Back in my day, we called that a child that needed to be spanked! Rabble rabble rabble…
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not American so this particular party line hasn’t infected our mentally and emotionally challenged folks, no, lol.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love how the last one is bigger, as if he wanted to add more but not enough for another book
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s like Stephen King stretching the ending because he can’t bear to finish.
jared@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I need this.
porksnort@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I am in this image and I resent the implication.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Did your mom take Tylenol too?
porksnort@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Not a lot. Just compulsively before coitus
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
His momma clearly got into some of that pre-industrial Tylenol! 🤡
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Chewed too much willow bark
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 day ago
That’s salicin a compound that the body converts to salicylic acid which is the precursor to aspirin.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Image
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Wholesome, all-natural home remedies!
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
with autism like that, the circumcision took the whole dick