[ENVIRONMENT - plants - view photographs]. [l. 1930s]. Set of 17 photographs form....

[ENVIRONMENT - plants - view photographs]. [l. 1930s]. Set of 17 photographs ca. 17x12 cm, 12x17 cm on cardboard backings ca. 24x1917.5 cm, by Franciszek Goc.
Photographs glued on cardboard backings, on some of them handwritten descriptions identifying with the name (in Polish and Latin) and place of occurrence of the plant, e.g..: "Lathraea squamaria (Lathraea squamaria L.) Kraków - Wolski Forest - (IV)", "Two-leaved coneflower. Mayflower. (Majanthemum bifolium Schm.) Krakow - Wolski Forest - (V)", "Wawrzynek wilczełyko (Daphne muzereum L.) Ojców - (III)", "Przylaszka wiosenna (Hepatica nobilis Garsault) Ojców - Sąspowska Valley - (IV), "Ostnica Jana (Stipa Joannis Cel) Ojców - rocks k/ Cave Ciemna - (VI)", "Common snowdrop. Snowdrop. (Galanthus nivalis L.) Kobylany - dol. Kobylany - (III)", "Clove. (Dianthus praecox W. K.) Western Tatras. - Chocholowska valley - Zawiesista - (VIII)", "Saffron conspicuous (Crocus scepusiensis Borb.) Tatry zachodnie. - Chocholowska glade - (IV)", "Grape feldspar (Saxifraga aizoon Jacq.) Tatry zachodnie. - Ciemniak - (VIII)", "Veined willow (Salix reticulata L.) Tatry zachodnie. - Ciemniak - (VIII)", "Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum Cass.) Tatry zachodnie. - Zadnie Kamienne - (VIII)", "Fruit-bearing octopetal oak (Dryas octopetala L.) Tatry zachodnie. (VIII)". Very good condition.
F. Goc (1893-1988) - studied at the Jagiellonian University from 1915-1919 and received a diploma in agricultural engineering. From 1920 he worked in the Department of Horticulture at the Jagiellonian University. In 1934 he received a doctorate in agriculture from the Faculty of Agriculture at Jagiellonian University on the basis of a dissertation entitled. "Variability of Forms and Anomalies in Primula obconica Hance," while he received the title of associate professor in 1955 on the basis of a monographic study entitled. "Cultivation of hazel trees." After the war he worked in Wroclaw, being, among other things, head of the Department of Horticulture at the Higher School of Agriculture in 1945-1948 and 1953-1963. He was the author of studies on horticulture, popularizer of knowledge in this subject, organizer and lecturer of courses and training for growers both, in the interwar and postwar years.