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* Sparta Capital world of the First and Second Empires of Man, originally called Botany Bay.
Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands Volume V, Part 1: Botany of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Pandanales to Thymeleales.
Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands Volume V, Part 1: Botany of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Pandanales to Thymeleales.
"' A regular and reciprocal System of Commerce ' Botany Bay, Nootka Sound, and the isles of Japan ", The Great Circle ( Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History ) vol. 19, no. 1, 1997, pp. 1 – 29.
In 1797 the British Romantic poet Robert Southey then a young Jacobin included a section in his collection, " Poems ," a selection of poems under the heading, " Botany Bay Eclogues ," in which he portrayed the plight and stories of transported convicts in New South Wales.
In The Botany of Desire, Pollan explores the concept of co-evolution, specifically of humankind's evolutionary relationship with four plants apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes from the dual perspectives of humans and the plants.
Plants and People Botany 328, Lab 1 Plant Vegetative Morphology and Vegetables.

Botany and agricultural
Botany was originally planned as an agricultural district, in the same way the surrounding suburbs were used for market gardens.

Botany and world
A slightly different, but equally expansive framework for natural history is also implied in the scope of work encompassed by many leading natural history museums, which often include elements of Anthropology, Geology, Paleontology and Astronomy along with Botany and Zoology, or include both cultural and natural components of the world.
In 1958 Went was appointed director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and professor of Botany at Washington University in St Louis, at a point where he had become a world recognized authority on plant growth.
The Museum of Economic Botany, established by Schomburgk in 1879 and described as " the last purpose-built colonial museum in the world " is located within the Gardens a short distance to the west.
a ) The Order Beds, where plants, taxonomically grouped, are cultivated for the use of the students of Botany and for exchange with numerous similar institutions ( Botanical Gardens and Institutes ) all over the world ( Index Seminum et Sporarum ).

Botany and which
Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.
The proposal written by James Matra under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks for establishing a settlement in New South Wales, stated that Botany Bay was: “ no further than a fortnight from New Zealand, which is covered with timber even to the water ’ s edge.
This implicit threat to the viability of the Royal Navy became apparent in mid-September ( a month after the decision had been taken to settle Botany Bay ) and caused the Pitt Administration to begin an urgent search for new sources of supply, including from Norfolk Island, which was then added to the plan to colonise New South Wales.
An article in The Daily Universal Register ( the forerunner of The Times ) of 23 December 1786 revealed the plan for a dual colonization of Norfolk Island and Botany Bay: “ The ships for Botany Bay are not to leave all the convicts there ; some of them are to be taken to Norfolk Island, which is about eight hundred miles East of Botany Bay, and about four hundred miles short of New Zealand ”.
The Centre is also responsible for curation of the Economic Botany Collection, which contains more than 90, 000 botanical raw materials and ethnographic artefacts, some of which are on display in the Plants + People exhibit in Museum No. 1.
* January 26 – Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, land at Sydney Cove ( which will become Sydney ), Australia, where he determines to establish the British prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
In Europe, for example, Aristotle ( 384 BCE – 322 BCE ) is said to have had a physic garden in the Lyceum at Athens, which was used for educational purposes and for the study of botany and this was inherited, or possibly set up, by his pupil Theophrastus, the " Father of Botany ".
The great building drive was completed in the early nineteenth century by Botany Bay, the square which derives its name in part from the herb garden it once contained ( and which was succeeded by Trinity College's own Botanic Gardens ).
She enjoyed reading, especially books by Charles Dickens in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy of Asa Gray's Elements of Botany.
The early Anglo-Celtic immigrants of the 18th and 19th centuries introduced folk ballad traditions which were adapted to Australian themes: " Bound for Botany Bay " tells of the voyage of British convicts to Sydney, " The Wild Colonial Boy " evokes the spirit of the bushrangers, and " Click Go the Shears " speaks of the life of Australian shearers.
In two volumes, the first of which is " A Voyage to Botany Bay.
Botany, particularly the leaves of plants, next attracted his attention ; and after several years of diligent study, rendered irksome by the increasing weakness of his eyesight, he published in 1754 one of the most original and interesting of his works, Recherches sur l ' usage des feuilles dans les plantes ; in which among other things he advances many considerations tending to show ( as was later done by Francis Darwin ) that plants are endowed with powers of sensation and discernment.
Minor fields: Paleontology, Botany ), he did his first fieldwork in Mexico in 1939 and 1941, then in Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, and the Philippines during World War II while on leave from the U. S. Navy, in which he was Ensign to Lieutenant in the Communications and Medical Service Corps.
King street, Newtown's main street, reputedly follows an ancient Aboriginal track that branched out from the main western track, now beneath Broadway and Parramatta Road, and which continued all the way to the coastal plains around Botany Bay.
The right-of-way of NJ 161 continues as Passaic County Route 611 ( Clifton Avenue ) towards downtown Clifton and remains mixed with commercial and residential properties until CR 611's intersection with Lexington Avenue, after which the remainder of Clifton Avenue to its terminus point with Randolph Avenue in the Botany section of town being residential.
The station was created by volunteers back in 2001 to broadcast a special two week licence in conjunction with the Midsummer Festival which was located on Botany Bay near the M61.
There is a man who left this country with the character of a first rate naturalist ( though with many eccentricities ) and of a very first-rate Natural History artist and he goes to Australia and takes up the subject of Botany, of which he is as ignorant as a goose.
They were the botanists who inspired the name Botanist Bay ( which later became Botany Bay ) for the first landing place of Cook's expedition in Australia.
While in Montpellier, Candolle published his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique ( Elementary Theory of Botany, 1813 ), which introduced a new classification system and the word taxonomy.

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The Daily Universal Register of 11 November 1786 had stated: " the Botany Bay scheme is laid aside, as there is a strong presumption that a squadron from Brest are now, or soon will be, in possession of the very spot we meant to occupy in New Holland ".
Modern applications of phenetics are common in botany, and some examples can be found in most issues of the journal Systematic Botany.
The Jodrell Library was recently merged with the Economic Botany and Mycology Libraries and all are now housed in the Jodrell Laboratory.
* The first ship leaves Britain for Botany Bay, Australia: 820 out of 1, 138 aboard are convicts.
The Shipstone, the extrasolar colonies Fiddler's Green, Proxima and Botany Bay, and the start of the balkanization of North America are mentioned in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
A number of memorials, commemorating Australia's history are located at the entrance to the Kurnell Peninsula portion of the Botany Bay National Park.
Hills of dry sclerophyll bushland include Botany Cone, 55 m, and Long Nose, 101 m. There are many small points and cliff formations and several walking tracks.
At the same time in NSW, Cunningham noted, "... rabbits are bred around houses, but we have yet no wild ones in enclosures ..." He also noted the scrubby, sandy soil between Sydney and Botany Bay would be ideal for farming rabbits.
Also, his Bemerkungen und Ansichten, published in an incomplete form in von Kotzebue's Entdeckungsreise ( Weimar, 1821 ) and more completely in Chamisso's Gesammelte Werke ( 1836 ), and the botanical work, Übersicht der nutzbarsten und schädlichsten Gewächse in Norddeutschland ( View of the Most Useful and the Most Noxious Plants of North Germany, with Remarks on Scientific Botany, 1829 ) are esteemed for their careful treatment of their subjects.
Women in England mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792
Suburbs in the City of Botany Bay are:
The two new blocks of offices and classroom in the upgraded Tanglin Core area are known as the Botany Centre.
The corridors and walkways of the Botany Centre are covered by leaf imprints.
Author and First Fleet officer Watkin Tench, whose accounts are primary sources about the early years of the colony, never suggested that the epidemic may have been caused by Aborigines disturbing the grave of a French sailor who died shortly after arrival in Australia ( supposedly of smallpox ) and had been buried at Botany Bay.
There are links to the cycleway running predominantly along the Cooks River to Botany Bay.
The museums of History, Georgian Emigration, Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Geography, Zoology and Botany are functioning at Tbilisi State University.

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