In 1735, Joseph de Jussieu, a French botanist, collected detailed information about the cinchona trees. |
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A curious sidelight on gourd-growing emerges from the reminiscences of Kinau Wilder, the niece of the botanist Gerrit Parmile Wilder. |
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She has played the part of a professional shikari, an ecologist, a botanist and as a tourism development manager. |
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Always busy in the herbarium and nattily dressed in coat and bow tie, Wilbur was an enviable model of a true botanist devoted to his craft. |
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Half a century after Cook's arrival, the Austrian botanist Ferdinand Bauer collected seed of the glory pea for cultivation. |
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I realized she was assessing my back muscles, judging their strength, reading them the way a botanist reads the rings of a tree's trunk. |
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Chase, Mary Agnes Meara, American botanist, widely regarded as an expert in agrostology, the study of grasses. |
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The botanist who spots a double flower in a field of single sees a chance mutation that has altered that plant's genetics. |
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A botanist who lived two doors down, a lovely man, taught him all the Latin names for the different woods. |
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Though primarily a botanist, he demonstrated a broad interest in other subjects, as well. |
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A botanist from the University of Bradford has discovered a rare plant fruiting for the first time in more than 130 years. |
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Having the same name presents no difficulties whatsoever to the zoologist nor to the botanist. |
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Lewis took home six bitterroot specimens, which he later gave to botanist Frederick Pursh, who named the genus after Lewis. |
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Dutch botanist Martinus Bijerinck called this infectious fluid contagium vivum fluidum. |
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It was right next to the Biosphère that botanist Pehr Kalm was welcomed to the Baron of Longueuil's summer residence. |
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Look around closely and try to picture yourself in the place of the botanist, who walked right here more than 260 years ago. |
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He is the mission botanist, ideally placed to raise crops with which to feed himself. |
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It's plain silly to compartmentalize the disciplines, as if a botanist couldn't talk to an economist, a geologist to a rhetorician, or N. A. Chomsky to G. W. Bush. |
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A keen botanist, she founded Kew Gardens and was a great patron of the arts. |
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It is a rare flower indeed and for a botanist, running across one is always a source of joy. |
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The British botanist this week came out in support of the anti-wind camp. |
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The botanist, who studied the phenomenon of the caducity of blossom and young nuclei in plum trees, distinguishes three stages of this falling off of the nuclei. |
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The renowned 20th-century American botanist Luther Burbank first made a name for himself when he invented the Burbank potato. |
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Even today, the original lineage of crop corn survives in a lanky grass called teosinte, which has tiny stubs of seeds that only a botanist could love. |
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Avinoam Danin, a botanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem claims he has identified pollen from the tumbleweed Gundelia tournefortii and a bean caper on the shroud. |
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Modern taxonomy was born in 1753 when Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus devised the system of binomial nomenclature and assigned a unique name for every plant and animal. |
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There are two murals on it that pay homage to two local personalities: a physician and botanist born in the thirteenth century and MartÃn Vázquez Ciruela, a canon and theologian. |
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Which multi-talented US Secretary of War was also a physician and a botanist after whom a well-known Christmas flower is named? |
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He blurs the boundary between landscape and architecture, to the point of using plants as building materials, with the help of botanist Patrick Blanc. |
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This book established Catharine as a respected botanist, skilled in describing plant characteristics, habitats and uses, and knowledgeable in the folklore associated with them. |
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He is the botanist and the main community facilitator in the project. |
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She was a medic, botanist, mystic, visionary, playwright and poet. |
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Buffon describes the breed precisely in his Natural History, written in the 18th century, stressing its rarity, while the Swedish botanist and zoologist Linnaeus also mentioned it. |
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A singular obsession with an extinct species of passion flowers lets a botanist from Tamil Nadu in trouble. |
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It belongs in the library of every South African botanist and fern enthusiast, and will be of interest to pteridologists elsewhere in the world. |
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For example, in the biology module, participants would complete activities that span a range of careers, such as zoologist, botanist, pathologist, medical doctor and veterinarian. |
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But most of all, throughout his life he was a botanist, a bryologist by specialist preference. |
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One of the book's thought experiments involves Jim, a botanist doing research in a South American country led by a brutal dictator. |
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The common name honors David Douglas, a Scottish botanist and collector who first reported the extraordinary nature and potential of the species. |
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Alberto Arecas, chief botanist of the National Museum for Natural History in Havana, Cuba. |
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At other times we feel unnerved by the never-ending combat. Tea with Miss JekyllGraham Thomas was in a gardening tradition that stretches back to Theophrastus, the most influential botanist of antiquity. |
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As a botanist he was recognized and well-published as an expert on stemless blue violets. |
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In fact, the first such accident happened in Birr, Ireland, in 1869 when Mary Ward, a botanist, was thrown from Lord Rosse's steam-powered road carriage and then run over by it. |
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The only person who would know those species would be a botanist. |
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Looking to discover the tea growing secrets and to end their reliance on Chinese tea, the British Tea Committee sent Robert Fortune, an English botanist, on an undercover mission to China. |
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Any botanist researching medicinal plants is there to throw such knowledge into the public domain through publication, thereby disenfranchising both the country of origin and the traditional peoples. |
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A botanist of 19th century said that Manna was the dried sap that is extracted from a certain plants that grow in Sinai when it is bitten by plant lice. |
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Here he adopts a broad racial typology that was formulated in the eighteenth century by the eminent Swedish botanist and typologist Carl Linnaeus. |
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It was first recorded in 1837 by botanist Thomas Edmondston. |
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The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist. |
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In 1950, an Italian botanist, Domenico Casella, suggested that a depiction of a pineapple was represented among wall paintings of Mediterranean fruits at Pompeii. |
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The only other plant, a Madagascan yam, was published by a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Kew botanist Paul Wilkin, and co-authors in Kew Bulletin. |
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In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement. |
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Of his surviving children, George, Francis and Horace became Fellows of the Royal Society, distinguished as astronomer, botanist and civil engineer, respectively. |
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In 1827, the British botanist Robert Brown observed that dust particles inside pollen grains floating in water constantly jiggled about for no apparent reason. |
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In their book they discuss meeting with the wife of the botanist Adrian Dyer, and that Dyer's wife told him that Dyer agreed that the image thought to be maize was accurate. |
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The first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis was made on 17 August 1771 by James Robertson, an Edinburgh botanist, who was in the region to collect botanical specimens. |
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A change starts to appear in 1881, when Professor Charles Cardale Babington a botanist and archaeologist at Cambridge University, became president. |
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He was son of the botanist and mycologist Pierre Augustin Dangeard. |
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Five northern hawk's-beard plants were found by botanist Dr John Richards, of Hexham, on the Williamston Nature Reserve at Slaggy ford on the South Tyne. |
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