I have found a passing reference (I cannot confirm) to a fifth law of
Emperor Asoka of India, writen on a pillar in 240 bC, stating that forests
should not be burned, either without purpose nor to destroy living beings.
Fernando Pires
At 07:19 26/05/05, you wrote:
>What about hunting reserves, their being areas in which normal agricultural
>activity was forbidden in order that game-species might flourish? For
>southern England, this means looking back at least as far as late-C11th
>'forests' (in the legal rather than botanical sense), but I'd be very
>surprised if there weren't anything earlier either here or elsewhere.
>
>Tom Boyd
>Archivist
>British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK
>Tel: +44 (0)1842 750050; Fax: +44 (0)1842 750030
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Leslie Overstreet" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [HIST-NAT-HIST] Research query
>
>
> > My thanks to Les Jessop, M. Eddy, John Awlock (I'm guessing, from the
> > e-mail address), and Bob Peck for their helpful information and
>suggestions
> > concerning early references to human impact/disturbance/degradation of
> > plants' and animals' natural habitat. Depending on how you define the
> > question, people have been noting such things since the 15th century, it
> > seems, and whole books written about early colonists's impact in New
> > England.
> > Prof. Jessop's reference to John Ray's Catalogus plantarum circa
> > Cantabrigium nascentium (1660) is particularly apt since Catesby is
>thought
> > to have studied informally under Ray, or at least from his books.
> > Thanks! It's wonderful to have such wide-ranging expertise on tap
> > through this listserv.
> > Best wishes to all,
> > Leslie
> >
> >
> >
> > PLEASE NOTE new phone and e-mail
> >
> > (Ms.) Leslie K. Overstreet
> > Curator of Natural-History Rare Books
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> >
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> > http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/cullman
> >
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