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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 (7,287 words) - 13:58, 26 July 2024
  • 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
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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
  • 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) - 02:44, 2 February 2024
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    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 (16,102 words) - 03:10, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Research stations in Antarctica
    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 (2,410 words) - 15:57, 2 August 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 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
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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 (5,769 words) - 18:33, 29 July 2024
  • 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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    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 (5,705 words) - 10:45, 21 July 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...
    176 KB (19,424 words) - 06:50, 21 July 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...
    378 KB (112 words) - 00:08, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of botany
    physician to organise botanical expeditions to systematise their local flora. In Italy, Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 – 1605) organised an expedition to the Sibylline...
    100 KB (11,536 words) - 18:12, 22 July 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) - 18:47, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of women explorers and travelers
    Antarctic women List of explorations List of explorers List of lost expeditions List of travelers List of women astronauts Women in space McNulty, Rose...
    19 KB (118 words) - 21:50, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thor Heyerdahl
    zoology, botany and geography. Heyerdahl is notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he drifted 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean...
    63 KB (7,226 words) - 21:59, 29 July 2024
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    Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. Banisteria, a journal devoted to the natural history of Virginia. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. Appalachian...
    86 KB (9,187 words) - 23:28, 5 August 2024
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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 (6,394 words) - 15:34, 24 July 2024
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    James Edward Alexander (category British Army personnel of the Crimean War)
    1820, he joined the British East India Company's army, transferring into the British Army in 1825. As aide-de-camp to the British envoy to Persia, he...
    22 KB (1,871 words) - 20:19, 11 June 2024
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