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.

Botany was greatly stimulated by the appearance of the first " modern " text book, Matthias Schleiden's, published in English in 1849 as Principles of Scientific Botany.

Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.

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.

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.

Orchid was introduced in 1845 by John Lindley in School Botany, due to an incorrect attempt to extract the Latin stem ( orchis ) from Orchidaceae.

The Jodrell Library was recently merged with the Economic Botany and Mycology Libraries and all are now housed in the Jodrell Laboratory.

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.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

In 1779 Banks, giving evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, had stated that in his opinion the place most eligible for the reception of convicts " was Botany Bay, on the coast of New Holland ".

In " Space Seed ", it was used to tow Khan Noonien Singh's ship, the SS Botany Bay.

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.

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 ".

It was first described under the name of the New Holland Cassowary in Arthur Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, published in 1789.

Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.

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 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.

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.

In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788.

* The first ship leaves Britain for Botany Bay, Australia: 820 out of 1, 138 aboard are convicts.

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.

Botany Bay is also featured in Heinlein's novel Time for the Stars, and another extrasolar colony, Halcyon, is featured in Starman Jones.

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.

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.

Jodrell Bank was first used for academic purposes in 1939 when the University of Manchester's Department of Botany purchased three fields at the site from the Leighs.

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.

Modern applications of phenetics are common in botany, and some examples can be found in most issues of the journal Systematic Botany.

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.

Of Gray's many works on botany, the most popular was his Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive.

Botany collections at the Academy, which are housed in the Philadelphia Herbarium ( PH ), include some of the oldest and most important botanical collections in the Americas.

He was also closely associated with Arizona State University over most of this period, serving as an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Geology, Geography, and Botany and Microbiology.

It had its headquarters in the National University of Singapore as most office holders were from the then Departments of Botany and Zoology, now merged into the Department of Biological Sciences.

The book begins with Khan, Lt. Marla McGivers, and most of the other supermen and women that had been with him on the SS Botany Bay arriving on the planet Ceti Alpha V. Khan is given supplies and a phaser and begins to build a colony on the planet.

A. J. Borde, the then principal of the Wilson College, sanctioned the Club after realizing the need for a body that could organize nature trails and excursions for students of faculties other than Botany and Zoology, who undertook these trails for academic purposes.

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 ).

Kew Gardens donated seeds and plants to establish the collection, this collection was used by students to enable them to study Botany.

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.

Botany is the scientific study of plant life.

James Petiver ( c. 1665 – 1718 ) was a London apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his study of botany and entomology.

George Barrington ( 14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804 ), an Irish-born pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer ( following his transportation to Botany Bay ), and author.

* In the popular Australian folk song " Botany Bay ", the first verse references the " well known Old Bailey ".

BBG's website, bbg. org, showcases the Garden and its programs and offers information for the home gardener in popular features such as Garden Botany and Environmental Gardening.

He was the famous author of the Kitab al-Nabat ( The Book of Plants ), a popular work on Botany, which defined the sex of Plants.

The Sir Joseph Banks Hotel was a popular hotel on the shores of Botany Bay.

The popular Cooks River bicycle track follows the river along its northern bank connecting the suburb with Homebush to the north-west and Botany Bay to the east.

The popular Cooks River bicycle track follows the river along its northern bank connecting the suburb with Homebush to the north-west and Botany Bay to the east.