However, his focus turned from medicine towards natural science, and he joined the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1847, and soon after became secretary to the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.

The Botanical Garden of Acapulco is a tropical garden located on lands owned by the Universidad Loyola del Pacifico.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

The river is also straddled by the New York Botanical Gardens, its neighbor, the Bronx Zoo, and a little further south, on the west shore, Bronx River Art Center.

The current classification is nomen conservandum, which means the name is authorized for use by the International Botanical Congress ( IBC ).

It also is the flagship of the The Protea Atlas Project, run by the South African National Botanical Institute.

His contribution to the society was significant but short-lived: after collaborating with Withering on his Botanical Arrangement of British Plants the two quarrelled bitterly and Stokes severed his relations with the main Lunar members by 1788.

* 1753 – Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

The term microevolution was first used by botanist Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in the journal Botanical Gazette in 1909, addressing what he called the " mystery " of how formlessness gives rise to form.

Bust of Malcolm Fraser by political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor Peter Nicholson ( cartoonist ) | Peter Nicholson located in the Prime Minister's Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

Bust of Paul Keating by political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor Peter Nicholson located in the Prime Minister's Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

The city lived a period of particular splendour: the Biblioteca Palatina ( Palatine Library ), the Archaeological Museum, the Picture Gallery and the Botanical Garden were founded, together with the Royal Printing Works directed by Giambattista Bodoni.

Bust of Robert Menzies by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Minister's Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

Ceraunia were collected by many persons over the centuries including Michele Mercati, Superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden in the late 16th century.

* May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus ( adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants ).

Milan also hosts three important botanical gardens: the Milan University Experimental Botanical Garden ( a small botanical garden operated by the Istituto di Scienze Botaniche ), the Brera Botanical Garden ( another botanical garden, founded in 1774 by Fulgenzio Witman, an abbot under the orders of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and restored in 1998 after several years of abandonment ) and the Cascina Rosa Botanical Garden.

In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British planters, although the experimental efforts to grow rubber on a commercial scale in India were initiated as early as 1873 at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta.

Although this is discouraged by both the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, there are some five thousand such names in use in more than one kingdom.

During the eighteenth century, the figure of the priest, mathematician and botanist José Celestino Mutis ( 1732 – 1808 ), was delegated by the Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Gongora to conduct an inventory of the nature of the Nueva Granada, which became known as the Botanical Expedition, which classified plants, wildlife and founded the first astronomical observatory in the city of Santa Fé de Bogotá.

The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is a popular recreation area a short distance from the City centre.

The annual Tulip Festival at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is a popular Spring celebration in the City.

Kingdoms are divided into phyla ( singular: phylum ) — for animals ; the term division, used for plants and fungi, is equivalent to the rank of phylum ( and the current International Code of Botanical Nomenclature allows the use of either term ).

Burial Hill ( now Flagstaff railway station ) became its home ground in January 1839, however, the area was already set aside for Botanical Gardens and the club was moved on in October 1846, to an area on the south bank of the Yarra about where the Herald and Weekly Times building is today.

Another major facility is the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, which is located on the eastern outskirts of Ann Arbor.

Herăstrău is located in the north of the city, around Lake Herăstrău, and is the site of the Village Museum, while the Botanical Garden is the largest of its kind in Romania and contains over 10, 000 species of plants, many of them exotic ; it was once a pleasure park for the royal family.

The largest collection of living Araceae is maintained at Missouri Botanical Gardens.

" The Plant List " is a collaboration between the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England.

Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature ( ICBN ), Rosidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass.

One of the more prominent landmarks downtown is the Crystal Bridge at the Myriad Botanical Gardens, a large downtown urban park.

The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is home to numerous natural habitats, WPA era architecture and landscaping, and hosts major touring concerts during the summer at its amphitheater.

The Ooty Botanical Gardens was laid out in 1847 and is maintained by the Government of Tamil Nadu.

The Botanical Garden is lush, green, and well-maintained.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series parodied the movie in " The Tomato From The Black Lagoon ", where the gang looks for a missing tomato link in the San Zucchini Botanical Gardens and are stalked by an amphibious tomato who goes after Tara, who is also part tomato.

He particularly enjoyed Panama, Costa Rica, and Cuba, which he visited at length on at least thirty occasions beginning in 1908, generally staying in Soledad at the Harvard Botanical Gardens.

He is known for two monumental works, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris ( Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise, 1629 ), which generally describes the proper cultivation of plants ; and Theatrum Botanicum ( The Botanical Theatre or Theatre of Plants, 1640 ), the most complete and beautifully presented English treatise on plants of its time.

Prior to the first International Botanical Congress, local congresses concerned with natural sciences generally had grown to be very large, and a more specialized but also international meeting was considered desirable.

In 1917 Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson, which today is known as Botanical Garden of TU Delft.

In 1919 Henry Huntington provided limited access to the art collections, and to the rare books and historical documents, housed in the library and in his large Neoclassical-Palladian mansion, as well as to the surrounding botanical gardens, all collectively known as " The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens ", or " The Huntington ", to the public.

The work consists of a series of black-and-white photographs of glass botanical specimens from the Botanical Museum at Harvard University, chosen according to a list of the thirty-six countries in which political disappearances were known to have taken place during the year 1985.

Other landmarks include the bronze statue of former president John A. Hannah, the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, and the painted boulder known as " The Rock ", which is a popular spot for theatre, tailgating, and candlelight vigils.

Within a 15-minute drive of campus are the Wildlife Conservation Park ( better known as the Bronx Zoo ) and the New York Botanical Garden and its Haupt Conservatory.

The grounds are now known as the Marsh Botanical Garden.

Shaw Nature Reserve, formerly known as Shaw Arboretum, is a private nature reserve located in Gray Summit, Missouri, that is run by the Missouri Botanical Garden as an extension.

Its gardens are now known as the Mepkin Abbey Botanical Garden.

At the time of its founding, EBZS was known as the Alameda County Botanical and Zoological Society.

There is also known to have existed a ‘ Botanical Brewery ’, though it is believed that this may have been a part of the Stinson or Massey enterprises, both of which later moved to Hermitage Road.

The botanical garden is also known as Zhongshan Botanical Gardens after the spelling of its name in pinyin.

Hooker in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy.

It was formerly known as the Missouri Botanical Garden Arboretum, or colloquially as the Shaw Arboretum after Henry Shaw, founder of the Garden.

He was a keen gardener, known for his prize-winning vegetables and flowers, and was also a keen botanist, and was treasurer of the Horticultural and Botanical Society.

However, on 19 September 2009, the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens issued a media release regarding the propagation efforts saying: " The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is working towards securing the future of a rare and ancient Tasmanian native plant ... Lomatia tasmanica, commonly known as King's Lomatia, is critically endangered with less than 500 plants growing in the wild in a tiny pocket of Tasmania's isolated south west.

In a short period ( between 1808 and 1810 ), the government founded the Royal Naval Academy and the Royal Military Academy ( both military schools ), the Biblioteca Nacional, the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, the Medico-Chirurgical School of Bahia, currently known as Faculdade de Medicina under harbour of Universidade Federal da Bahia and the Medico-Chirurgical School of Rio de Janeiro ( Faculdade de Medicina of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ).

Sailors ' Snug Harbor, also known as Sailors Snug Harbor or Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden or, informally, Snug Harbor, is a collection of architecturally significant 19th-century buildings set in a park along the Kill Van Kull on the north shore of Staten Island in New York City, United States.

As such, it is known as the Mizell-Leu House Historic District ( or Leu Botanical Gardens and Leu House Museum ).

The entity known as “ Tucson Botanical Gardens ” was originally founded in 1964 by horticulturist and collector, Harrison G. Yocum.

The McConnell Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, also known as the Redding Arboretum, opened on May 30, 2005, and covers 300 acres ( 120 hectares ), including 200 acres ( 80 hectares ) of undeveloped arboretum and 20 acres ( 8 hectares ) of botanical garden ) that span the Sacramento River.

* Mallee ( biogeographic region ), formerly known as Roe Botanical District

The Fay Hyland Botanical Plantation ( also known as the Fay Hyland Arboretum ), 10 acres ( 40, 000 m² ), is an arboretum and botanical garden located along the Stillwater River on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine, USA.