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In 1923, the University began moving into the new campus, slowly vacating its former premises on Ellof Street for the first completed building in Milner Park: the Botany and Zoology Block.
He also made the first systematic study of native Potamogeton, and after becoming Professor of Botany at Amherst, began preparing A Catalogue of Plants Growing without cultivation within 30 miles of Amherst College ( published in 1875 ).
The garden began in 1930, when Dr. Walter P. Cottam, co-founder of The Nature Conservancy and chairman of the Botany Department at the University of Utah, began using campus land for plant research.
Immediate work began on a pipeline under Botany Bay to carry desalinated water to northern suburbs and the size of the desalination plant was doubled.
John Templeton's interest in botany began with an experimental garden laid out according to a suggestion in Rousseau's ' Nouvelle Heloise ' and following Rousseau's ' Letters on the Elements of Botany '.

Botany and with
George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in 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.
The Jodrell Library was recently merged with the Economic Botany and Mycology Libraries and all are now housed in the Jodrell Laboratory.
The remastered Original Series episode " Amok Time " featured Shikahr in the background as Spock beams up at the episode's end, and the remastered version of " The Ultimate Computer " replaced the Botany Bay-style Woden with an automated grain carrier from " More Tribbles, More Troubles.
The innovative mathematician and physicist Samuel Klingenstierna ( 1698 – 1765 ) was made a professor in 1728, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius in 1729, and Carl Linnaeus was made professor of Medicine with Botany in 1741.
* February 17 – The uninhabited Lord Howe Island is discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who is on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.
Other European explorers followed intermittently until, in 1770, James Cook charted the East Coast of Australia for Britain and returned with accounts favouring colonisation at Botany Bay ( now in Sydney ), New South Wales.
They were named by Krusenstern, after English explorer John Marshall, who visited them together with Thomas Gilbert in 1788, in route from Botany Bay to Canton ( two ships of the First Fleet ).
William Jackson Hooker, who was Garden Director and Professor of Botany, was greatly impressed with him and took him on an expedition to the Highlands before recommending him to the Royal Horticultural Society of London.
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.
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.
Written in three verses, it deals with a fictitious but realistic story of " Michael " being deported to Botany Bay for stealing corn to feed his starving family.
It did so in 1973 with a team that consisted of Philip Bassett ( Botany ), David Curry ( Material Sciences ), David Wurtzel ( Law ) and Michael Halls ( English ).
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.
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.
Flora Medica: containing coloured delineations of the various medicinal plants admitted into the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopœias ; with their natural history, botanical descriptions, medical and chemical properties, Together with a Concise Introduction to Botany ; a Copious Glossary of Botanical Terms ; and a List of Poisonous Plants.
People convicted of shoplifting items worth more than five shillings would be hanged in London's Tyburn Tree ( known as the " Tyburn jig ") with crowds of thousands watching, or would be transported to the North American colonies or to Botany Bay in Australia.
Qantas jet on taxiway with aircraft viewing area and Botany Bay beach in foreground
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.
His account of about 100 plants met with will be found in Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales, edited by Barron Field, 1825, under the title " A Specimen of the Indigenous Botany.

Botany and early
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 ).
Hill forts from the early Iron Age exist locally at Botany Hill to the south of the town, and at " Caesar's Camp " to the north.
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.
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.
A small section of Carrum Downs is sometimes referred to by locals as " Botany Park ", based on the name of a housing estate built during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
During the early 1990s, the South Western quarter between Ballarto and Frankston-Dandenong Roads was known as ' Botany Bush '.
With widespread use as a freight line throughout the early 20th century, the use of containers and the decentralisation of freight terminals in Sydney to places such as Port Botany and Chullora, Darling Harbour traffic was reduced considerably.
Colonial officer Watkin Tench recorded that during the early years of the colony, the area beyond the settlement was, in effect, open parkland, and that it was possible to walk easily across country from Sydney Cove to Botany Bay.
* A song entitled " The Shores of Botany Bay " was written by Brian Warfield and recorded by The Wolfe Tones in the early 1970s.

Botany and human
The human augments in Star Trek: Enterprise seem to be aware of the Botany Bay, but their human leader ( a convicted criminal ) Arik Soong assures them that it's a myth.

Botany and efforts
The school was established in 1904, thanks to the efforts of John Rowland Dacey, the state member for Botany, who had nearby suburb of Daceyville named after him.

Botany and edible
One notable account is from the first chapter of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan .< ref > 2002 paperback: ISBN 0-375-76039-3 </ ref > Pollan states that since Johnny Appleseed was against grafting, his apples were not of an edible variety and could be used only for cider: " Really, what Johnny Appleseed was doing and the reason he was welcome in every cabin in Ohio and Indiana was he was bringing the gift of alcohol to the frontier.

Botany and medicinal
It was originally called Botany Bay after a botanical garden that was planted here for the cultivation of medicinal herbs.
He also established an extensive medicinal garden in the 1880s at the Gardens and opened a Museum of Economic Botany and Plant Products in 1892.

Botany and plants
The Sustainable Uses of Plants group ( formerly the Centre for Economic Botany ), focus on the uses of plants in the United Kingdom and the world's arid and semi-arid zones.
* P. Bannister, ' Winter frost resistance of leaves of some plants from the Three Kings Islands, grown outdoors in Dunedin, New Zealand ' New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1984, Vol.
Bartram provided the illustrations of North American plants for Barton's 1803 Elements of Botany.
* A Manual of Botany: including the structure, functions, classification, properties, and uses of plants, etc.
Thurn was also a keen photographer and author of several works related to his expedition to Roraima, which were published in scientific journals, including: " The Botany of Roraima Expedition of 1884: being notes on the plants observed ; with a list of the species collected, and determinations of those that are new " ( Linnean Society, 1887 ), and Among the Indians of Guiana: being sketches, chiefly anthropologic from the interior of British Guiana, etc.
Kew Gardens donated seeds and plants to establish the collection, this collection was used by students to enable them to study Botany.
After two years as simply Professor of Botany at Washington University, in 1965 he then became director of the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada-Reno, where he continued his research on desert plants for the remainder of his career.
In 1950, the Gifford Society of Tropical Botany was formed to promote the study of tropical plants, and the arboretum grew to more than 500 plants.
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.
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 ).
However, in his journal ( prepared later from his log ), he changed to " The great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Botany Bay ".
Botany at first attracted him and he was one of the earliest to use the microscope in determining the structure of fossil plants.

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