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  • Thumbnail for Botanical garden
    A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display...
    66 KB (7,308 words) - 09:38, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Long's Expedition of 1820
    The Stephen H. Long Expedition of 1820 traversed America's Great Plains and up to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was the first scientific party...
    24 KB (2,887 words) - 10:34, 2 September 2024
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    Edward Whittall (category Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
    Whittall is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Whittall's grandfather Charlton Whittall (1791-1867) and his brother...
    5 KB (657 words) - 23:29, 22 October 2023
  • Peter Hadland Davis (category 20th-century British botanists)
    1938 he began his first botanical expedition, albeit as an amateur on his own initiative. He visited the Middle East and Turkey, but had to break off his...
    6 KB (741 words) - 11:46, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Russian Antarctic Expedition
    Russian Antarctic Expedition took place in 1819–1821 under the direction of Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The expedition aimed to reach the...
    166 KB (21,886 words) - 22:57, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Morea expedition
    The Morea expedition (French: Expédition de Morée) is the name given to the land intervention of the French Army in the Peloponnese between 1828 and 1833...
    133 KB (16,099 words) - 16:14, 13 October 2024
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    Norwegian/British explorer, led the British Antarctic Expedition to Cape Adare, where he established the first Antarctic base on Ridley Beach. This expedition is...
    78 KB (2,431 words) - 13:38, 12 October 2024
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    JSTOR 25475502. Friis, Ib (2015). "Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762–1763"...
    49 KB (5,768 words) - 12:14, 7 October 2024
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    scientific expeditions: Botanical Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru (1777–78); Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada (1783–1816); the Royal Botanical Expedition...
    172 KB (19,391 words) - 23:39, 28 August 2024
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    1955 by Joe Brown and George Band, who were part of the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. They stopped just short of the true summit, keeping a promise...
    53 KB (5,754 words) - 06:48, 9 October 2024
  • (1949), Busy Buddies (1956) 379 144 "Still British Toon in with Me" August 24, 2022 (2022-08-24) A British version of "Toon In With Me", with cartoons...
    398 KB (112 words) - 11:27, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apostles of Linnaeus
    carried out botanical and zoological expeditions throughout the world that were either devised or approved by botanist Carl Linnaeus. The expeditions took place...
    28 KB (3,204 words) - 14:28, 31 December 2023
  • John Paul Wellington Furse (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    brought into cultivation under that name. In 1964, they carried out a botanical expedition in conjunction again with the Royal Horticultural Society botanist...
    25 KB (2,737 words) - 20:38, 14 May 2024
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    Elke Mackenzie (category Use British English from September 2023)
    tasked with both botanical and geological collecting. At the island, Mackenzie participated in several short manhauling expeditions, involving the manual...
    32 KB (3,166 words) - 02:06, 25 September 2024
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    and completed in 1704. The Hernández de Córdoba expedition of 1517 was the first Spanish expedition to reach Campeche, and its members were among the...
    51 KB (5,742 words) - 03:56, 7 September 2024
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    Samuel Baker (category Use British English from August 2014)
    issued Baker's companion with a British passport under the name Florence Barbara Maria Finnian, although she was British neither by birth nor yet by marriage...
    22 KB (2,893 words) - 00:17, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for August Grisebach
    medicine from the University of Berlin in 1836. He undertook expeditions to Provence, Turkey, the Balkans, and Norway. In 1837 he became associate professor...
    5 KB (332 words) - 14:34, 20 August 2024
  • Mark James Elgar Coode (category 20th-century British botanists)
    addition to Papua New Guinea, he participated in botanical scientific expeditions to the Congo (1959) and Turkey (1962, 1965). 1972. Notes on the Flora of Two...
    5 KB (458 words) - 23:19, 19 March 2023
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    Natural dye (redirect from Botanical dye)
    in 1869. Madder was also used to dye the "hunting pinks" of Great Britain. Turkey red was a strong, very fast red dye for cotton obtained from madder...
    51 KB (6,402 words) - 21:20, 22 September 2024
  • Charles Ryan (surgeon) (category Ottoman military personnel of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878))
    poet who married Richard Casey, Baron Casey. His sister was the noted botanical painter Ellis Rowan. Ryan died at sea, on board the Otranto, near Adelaide...
    8 KB (873 words) - 21:50, 22 August 2024
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