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...Description: The Expeditions of Which the Results Are Narrated in the Following Pages Took Their Origin From a Proposition Made to Government By Myself, in Conjunction With Lieutenant Lushington, * in the Latter Part of the Year 1836....

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...ts of the larger group who wanted their institutions to survive, but how the group’s early optimism was then seared by the disasters of the exploring expedition they sponsored under the leadership of Burke and Wills. Finney goes on to discuss the impact of Darwinian theory on Australian natural history and the controversies it engendered, and also the emergence of natural...

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...d problems of working alone were broken by the arrival of that hallmark of early nineteenth century science—the globe-girdling scientific-exploratory expedition. When Matthew Flinders’ Investigator, with botanist Robert Brown aboard, touched at Sydney for a second time in 1803, George Caley wrote to his patron, Joseph Banks: I know I shall be much benefitted by Mr Brown, ...

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...ral history endeavours. Schooledin the traditional fashion of the Banksian botanical empire through employment at one of the Englishbotanic gardens, t... ...h Banks of hisdifficulties with the taxonomic complexities of the Linnaean botanical classification, ‘I have tried of lateto use the language of Linna... ... whichunder natural classifications would be closely grouped. The Linnaean botanical system, published inSystema Naturae (1735), centred on the sexual... ... show affinity with another if they exhibited similar characteristics. The botanicaldynasty of the de Jussieus and Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle champi... ...early nineteenth century science—the globe-girdling scientific-exploratory expedition.When Matthew Flinders’ Investigator, with botanist Robert Brown ... ...nd Oxley, were often away from Sydney on extended exploratory orcollecting expeditions. In the coming decade, however, the number of those interested ... ...cratic patron. Neither the vice-regal patronage of local governors nor the botanical empire which arose around William and JosephHooker subsequent to ... ...rry’sexamining the geological specimens Hume brought back from his 1824–25 expedition in conjunctionwith Hovell. Additionally, Berry championed the Hu... ...had at least some claim to status. Fraser had accompanied Oxley on his1817 expedition west of the Blue Mountains, and had taken part in Oxley’s second...

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...- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and foun...

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...nts -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce ofTroy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The cir... ...g of Thorwald by natives -- His last instructionswhile dying -- Finding of a skeleton in armor -- Expedition returns to Greenland in the year 1005 -- ... ...tablishing a route across the Isthmus --Proposition to cut a canal -- Disasters overtake Loyasa's expedition -- Renewal of disputes which the Popecoul... ...cope -- Preparationsfor a dangerous voyage -- Eighteen murderers sentenced to death accompany the expedition -- Appointmentof Vasco da Gama to the com... ... -- Maladies and fears -- First appearance of the scurvy --Capture of hammerhead sharks saves the expedition -- Trouble with the sultan of Zanzibar --... ...ce of Mons. de Commercon, whohad engaged to accompany Bougainville, with a view of increasing his botanical knowledge. She followedher master with ext...

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...ois Peron on much of the work in the manuscript. Those whothe French expedition of Nicholas Baudin provided great help in establishing ... ...hip of the land. Not only did their anew. Early exploratory seaborne expeditionsnomadic existence leave them open to the carried natural... ...sult of theseto England to confound the learned and general numerous expeditions, the natural history ofpublic alike. Aust... ...vestigation.naturalists had begun to arrive. While the The French expeditions that touched on theassemblages of plants and animals made prior... ...tent taxonomist, fitting his colour illustrations of zoological and botanicaldiscoveries into the existing Linnaean specimens. The vo... ...ntire continent to preclude any such Frenchhistory specimens. James Lee, a botanical claims. The local administrators in New Southacquaintance... ... Australian plants so much in rife, left little time for zoological or botanicaldemand by the virtuosi of Europe had been sent discovery.to t... ...ntific retinue both athe chronology listed in Genesis, that the earth botanical draughtsman and a landscape artist.was created in 4,004 B.C., the... ... zenith.Concentrating primarily on marine invertebrates,the zoological and botanical atlases resultingfrom these voyages were notable for theirdistinc...

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...8) French Botanist 344 CARL LINNAEUS AND MODERN TAXONOMY IN BIOLOGY 346 CARL LINNAEUS (1707 - 1778) Swedish Botanist and Zoologist 347 LINNAEUS’ EXPEDITION TO LAPLAND 349 LINNAEUS’ ACCOMPLISHMENTS 349 LINNAEUS PUBLICATIONS 352 SYSTEMA NATURAE, PUBLISHED IN 1735 AND 1758 353 SPECIES PLANTARUM, PUBLISHED IN 1753 354 FLORA LAPPONICA, PUBLISHED IN 1737 354 CRITICA B...

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...8) Swedish Botanist and Zoologist............................ 347LINNAEUS’ EXPEDITION TO LAPLAND......................................................... ... FOUNDER of the SCIENCE of BOTANY (thestudy of PLANT LIFE). Only two BOTANICAL STUDIES of THEOPHRASTUS havesurvived the passage of time. ... ...he retired from MEDICINE and dedicated therest of his life to CHEMICAL and BOTANICAL EXPERIMENTATION. VAN HELMONT was influenced by the great Swis... ...LANTS and ANIMALS, inaccordance with the CRITERIA accepted by BOTANICAL and ZOOLOGICALAUTHORITIES. The TAXONOMIC UNITS, or LEVEL... ...IENTIFIC REVOLUTION, PLINY is sometimesregarded as the FOUNDER of BOTANICAL LATIN. THE ROLE OF HERBALISTS IN EUROPEAN PLANT TAXONOMY The... ...UNFELSIA, MATTIOLIA,TURNERA, LOBELIA, FUCHSIA and GERARDIA. The first BOTANICAL GARDENS were founded in Italy, first in Pisa in 1543and then in P... ...FEMALE ( ), which are now widely used in GENETICS. LINNAEUS’ EXPEDITION TO LAPLAND 348LINNAEUS’ EXPEDITION TO LAP... ...to describe about a hundrednew PLANT SPECIES. As a result of this EXPEDITION, LINNAEUS wrote his book FLORALAPPONICA in 1737, w... ...ked UNIFORMITY,COORDINATION and COMMON SENSE. The many SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS that were made in the 17th and 18thCenturies by noted...

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...n Avenida Cesar Chavez.Pasto: “We know Dr. Dave. He treated my gluten with botanicals.”Observatory(The Reveille’s gum shoe sleuthing through the Tri-D... ...nd we’re here to enlist one ofyour citizens, Henry Pipps, for our scouting expedition. The mountains rise above the haze, and thedesert varnish is int... ...l. Put me in a taxi to the Chineseclinic. Get me a Cuban doctor. Give me a botanical from Dr. Dave's. But no Pele Verde.(Editor's note: Your Toast, a ... ... from Cuba. Dr.David Martinez, operates a free clinic that provides native botanicals.)ObservatoryThe Reveille’s cantering pilgrimage through the Tri-...

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...adiated powerEKhG electrochemical generatorEO Primary Expeditions xxxvRockets and ... ...rprises and at the now-famousBaykonur complex were preparing for a landing expedition to the Moon. From 1957 through 1967, the Soviet Union was the ... ...auts on the Moon no later than 1968 a task of utmost importance.The Soviet expedition to the Moon, which was conceived in Korolev’s lifetimeand suppor... ...mply never took place. Work on the SovietN1-L3 program—the piloted landing expedition to the Moon—ended in 1974. Everything that had to do with the ... ... surface.10 In this volume, I continue my story with the Soviethuman lunar expedition programs. In the process, I attempt to weave my nar-rative over ... ...n February. The next day, Sunday, I went cross-country skiing around the BotanicalGarden. The snow wasn’t deep, and from time to time my skis scrape... ... the three of us got together on neutral territoryin a quiet corner of the Botanical Garden to discuss the problem of the rela-tionship between the ma... ...imself either, but he needed famewhile he was alive.” Our meeting in the Botanical Garden created an atmosphere ripe for revela-tions and reminiscen...

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...ANT PHYSIOLOGY, his WILLOW TREE EXPERIMENT, which started the field of BOTANICAL EXPERIMENTATION. VAN HELMONT determined that WATER was part o... .............................. 451 CREATED THE FIRST HERBARIUM & THE FIRST BOTANICAL GARDENS IN ITALY AND EUROPE DURING THE MID 1500’S.ANDREA CESA... ...OGY STARTED THE MODERN ORGANIZATION OF ALL LIVING ORGANISMS.LINNAEUS’ EXPEDITION TO LAPLAND......................................................... ... FOUNDER of the SCIENCE of BOTANY (thestudy of PLANT LIFE). Only two BOTANICAL STUDIES of THEOPHRASTUS havesurvived the passage of time. ... ...LANT PHYSIOLOGY, his WILLOW TREE EXPERIMENT, which started the field of BOTANICAL EXPERIMENTATION. VAN HELMONT determined that WATER was part of... ...he retired from MEDICINE and dedicated therest of his life to CHEMICAL and BOTANICAL EXPERIMENTATION. 389 VAN HELMONT was i... ...FEMALE ( ), which are now widely used in GENETICS. LINNAEUS’ EXPEDITION TO LAPPLAND 460LINNAEUS’ EXPEDITION TO LA... ...to describe about a hundrednew PLANT SPECIES. As a result of this EXPEDITION, LINNAEUS wrote his book FLORALAPPONICA in 1737, w... ...ked UNIFORMITY,COORDINATION and COMMON SENSE. The many SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS that were made in the 17th and 18thCenturies by noted...

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...n that 29the Government was induced to send up an expedition into histerritories to see if he had spoken the truth, and nothi... ...est abundance. 70 At Olinda there is a national botanical garden: it wants space,produce and improvement. The forests, whic... ...e naturalist ranged through the East, under a royalcommission, in quest of botanical knowledge; and during his stay in theWestern regions has sent ove... ... necessary to scour the forests inquest of runaway negroes. Formerly these expeditions were headed byCharles Edmonstone, Esq., now of Cardross Park, n... ...laves had increased to an alarming extent. TheGovernor gave orders that an expedition should be immediatelyorganised and proceed to the woods under th... ...passed through his forehead. By this time his wife, who hadaccompanied the expedition, came up. She was a fine young woman,and had her long black hair... ... causealmost continual pain. Mr. Edmonstone has commanded fifteendifferent expeditions in the forest in quest of the Maroons. The ColonialGovernment h...

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...markable road constructed byTrajan (and probably his predecessors) for his expedition into Dacia,and at one place opposite to Gradina is a noted table... ... itself we shall speak hereafter at somelength in connection with Trajan's expedition, but a few wordsconcerning his bridge at Turnu-Severin may still... ...lianus--Legends regarding him--Domitian payshim tribute--Trajan--His first expedition against the Dacians--Hissupposed route--The engineering works of... ...eturn to Rome--Thebas-reliefs on Trajan's Column--Description of the first expeditiontherefrom--Decebalus breaks the treaty--Trajan's secondexpedition... ...he river whenhe undertook the conquest of the Thracian tribes prior to his expeditioninto Persia. He is said to have crossed the Danube at a place not... ... 353Kingdom; with which is incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms.Edited by J. LINDLEY, F.R.S. and T. MOORE, F.L.S. With 274W...

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...qually gorgeous. ' But or disquieting to the senses. that is a detail. Expeditions to the fantastic realm of the fabulous There are few tr... ... sympathy. And thus arose a discord between these promised to join the expedition. But when he mentioned his pur-loving hearts which was destine... ...r he embarked with the Perez which ended in American expedition, which was equipped with 3,000 rifles and an abundance ... ...to approach a human dwelling on pain of death. Meanwhile the Perez expedition made a successful landing in For a long time he wandered ... ...- )ustering expedition to Cuba. ... ...ss cultivated land, do his own work, find yourself in a very botanical garden of tropical plants and trees at least as far as m... ...catch your toes in the cracks while walk- iDavoa. It is more like a botanical garden than a United States ing over them in your bare... ...ut green where the vegetation is sprout- BOTANICAL GARDSNS, MANILA. These gatdfns formerly contained many ra... ... First American Public School iu PortoArecibo, Noon Hour in Principal Botanical Gardens, Manila ———695 Coffee Planter's Home 282 Rico ...

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...lativity in 1915. The first experimental test of this theorywas Eddington’s famous expedition to measure the bending of light at atotal solar eclipse ... ...ity,allow us to let Peter Coles spoke for that matter:[3] “The story of the 1919 expeditions revolves around an astronomer by the name of Arthur S... ...a devout Quaker, a fact that plays an important role in the story of the eclipse expedition. In 1912, aged only 30, he became the Plumian Professor ... ...rs later he became director of the Cambridge observatories. Eddington had led an expedition to Brazil in 1912 to observe an eclipse, so his creden... ...to investigate possible observing sites. It was decided to send not one, but two expeditions. One, led by Eddington, was to travel to the island o... ...digenous medical system that have persisted in developing countries. Many of the botanical chemo-preventions currently used as potent anticancer a...

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...abon. Magellan was succeeded by Juan Sebastián delCano as commander of the expedition, who ordered the immediate departure afterHumabon's betrayal. De... ...n, also named Francisco, anda worthy mestizo friar, now remembered for his botanical studies, but it is not likely that theseinfluenced Domingo Lam-co... ...rted with the coming the32TSpanish Augustinians from Mexico in 1565 in the expedition of Miguel Lopez de 32TLegaspi and Fray Andres de Urdaneta, OSA. ... ...cade earlier, in 1565, Legazpiarrived in the Philippines at the head of an expedition sent by Viceroy31TU U31T ULuis de Velasco31TU31T of31TUNew Spain... ...oss the 31TUPacific, Father Urdaneta was reluctant U31Tto take part in the expedition, let alone command it. When he declined the offer to lead,the re... ...ion ofour faith." The Spanish Crown between 1525 and 1542 had sent several expeditions tostrengthen its claim on the Moluccas, but none of these voyag... ... literature and learning.World-renowned botanist Father Blanco had built a botanical garden for his plantexperiments in Intramuros that became the bas...

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...abon. Magellan was succeeded by Juan Sebastián delCano as commander of the expedition, who ordered the immediate departure afterHumabon's betrayal. De... ...n, also named Francisco, anda worthy mestizo friar, now remembered for his botanical studies, but it is not likely that theseinfluenced Domingo Lam-co... ...started with the coming theSpanish Augustinians from Mexico in 1565 in the expedition of Miguel Lopez deLegaspi and Fray Andres de Urdaneta, OSA. From... ...cade earlier, in 1565, Legazpiarrived in the Philippines at the head of an expedition sent by Viceroy Luis de Velasco ofNew Spain to discover islands ... ...yages across the Pacific, Father Urdaneta was reluctantto take part in the expedition, let alone command it. When he declined the offer to lead,the re... ...ion ofour faith." The Spanish Crown between 1525 and 1542 had sent several expeditions tostrengthen its claim on the Moluccas, but none of these voyag... ... literature and learning.World-renowned botanist Father Blanco had built a botanical garden for his plantexperiments in Intramuros that became the bas...

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...nderstandings of the above ambivalent information. QUOTE: So the expedition was organised and despatched under the Puntura youths. It i... ...or state or kingdom that was yet to be created! QUOTE: an expedition (probably of Kongus or Gangas) from Mysore was driven back... ...oad to the pepper country of the East. The arrival of this Portuguese expedition aroused at once the greatest jealousy in the Moors or Muham... ...ely began to intrigue with the authorities for the destruction of the expedition. END OF QUOTE. Other books !COMMENT... ...s where they were in rule. QUOTE: The arrival of this Portuguese expedition aroused at once the greatest jealousy in the Moors or Muham... ...like this, but unarmed. You will see it growing in the Conservatory (Botanical Gardens) at Ootacamund if you go there. Is not this a lovel... ...l-nut tree (not the tree itself) in Malayalam, whence probably the botanical name areca. According to Arshad Beg’s Settlement of 1783-... ...7,459 Trans-Beni Ellurnad Botanical Garden, 21 Manantoddy.... ...e was next had to a Mr. Perrotet, a French gentleman, Superintendent, Botanical Gardens at Pondicherry. His advice was to plunge the seed in...

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...lain to the Prince of Sulmona, and attended him in this expedition, as also in his Journey to Padua, 1551, and th... ...) of the ROYAL FAMILIES of EUROPE, containing the Expeditions, Exploits, Marriages, Birth and Death of ... ...f Instructions for the Captain of a Ship going upon an Expedition, time of Charles I Commission from the Lords... ...advanced by them to defray the expence of the King's Expedition to England ; also for Payment of the Servants ... ... Reign 2. Graham's Account of the Earl of Glencairn's Expedition to the Highlands, 1653-4 3. Sir Archibald ... ... fol.944 WEDEKIND (Baron G. W. de) On Economico- Botanical Gardens On Forest Management, and the M...

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...y tofire their blood and to draw forth their subsidies by promisingthem an expedition for the conquest of France. But happily theenergies of our count... ... against Protestantism in Great Britain would not beless perilous than the expeditions in which the armies of Lewisthe Seventh and of Lewis the Ninth ... ...reattractions for the curious. The library, the museum, the aviary,and the botanical garden of Sir Thomas Browne, were thought byFellows of the Royal ... ...chemical 722discoveries of Boyle, and the earliest botanical researches ofSloane. It was then that Ray made a new classificati... ...d from them to skate on the canals. The Princesshad accompanied him in his expeditions on the ice; and the figurewhich she made there, poised on one l... ...ilitary administration. Thiscommittee was empowered to determine where the expedition shouldland, to appoint officers, to superintend the levying of t... ... the contributions of well wishers in Holland, asum sufficient for the two expeditions. Very little was obtainedfrom London. Six thousand pounds had b...

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...ed to the guide for help, but he who had been sovoluble and instructive in botanical lore, in several languages, now heldhis tongue in them all, appea... ...rutus and daughter of Pindarus the Trojan. It appearsthat during a hunting expedition an ermine was pursued by the dogs ofKing Brutus. The poor little... ...of _fetes_ and dances that Louis planned for his sister-in-law. There were expeditions on land by day, water parties on thelake by the light of the mo... ... mine, for nothing could so appeal to Lydia's historic soul as just suchan expedition as this! This was the chateau at which the great financierentert... ...reed with Lydia, and Archie, although he saysthat it is a ghoulish sort of expedition, would go anywhere with her, ofcourse.It is rather odd that none...

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... of his government post to float the Douglas Gold Mining Company.6The 1876 expedition confirmed that the Katherine River was a major tributary of the ... ...eight steers per cell. Pastures were sampled regularly for dry matter, botanical composition and quality determinations. Stock were weighed re...

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...rties,we elect to follow Giles Jackman, Quin, and Junkie up the river.This expedition involved a preliminary walk of four miles, which they allpreferr... ...thusiastic. Indeed, whether I go out with rod or gun, I usuallyconvert the expedition into a search for plants.""Oh, then, you are fond of botany!" ex... ...ad overdone it. The shock to her system has been fartoo severe to admit of botanical discussions."Barret professed himself overwhelmed with a sense of... ...ely, and to gradually arouse in the boy's mind an interestin such parts of botanical science as he was capable of understanding.Meanwhile the small ar... ...ing from a clump of hazelbushes."They are evidently bent on a photographic expedition," remarkedBarret, as the boys approached, Junkie waving his hat ... ... our provisions."There were two of the gentlemen who declined the shooting expedition.John Barret said he would start with them, but would at a certai... ...this fact (so he said),John Barret had selected the very same spot for his botanical ramble.It must be remembered, however, that it was a wide spot.Se... ...irforms slowly but continually.Now it so happened that John Barret, in his botanical wanderings aboutthe Eagle Cliff, in quest of the "rare specimens"... ..., as well as disingenuous, topass her and pretend not to see her, with his botanical box full of herown favourite plants and flowers?Love is proverbia...