The Commission added one general electorate in Auckland called Botany.

Ms Collins then sought and won the nomination for Papakura ( which comprises the other half of her former Clevedon electorate ) and allowed her colleague, National Party MP Pansy Wong to seek nomination for Botany.

Collins had originally indicated to seek nomination for the seat of Howick ( which the Electoral Commission later redrew and renamed to Botany following objections to the boundaries to the neighbouring electorate of Pakuranga ), but then stood for the Papakura seat, which also shared common boundaries with Clevedon.

Wong's decision was based partly on the fact that 33 % of the Botany electorate is Asian.

* Botany ( New Zealand electorate ), a New Zealand Parliamentary electoral district

The state electorate of Heffron was named after him and covers much of his former electorate of Botany.

Henslow's publications included A Catalogue of British Plants ( 1829 ; 2nd ed 1835 ); Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany ( 1835 ); Flora of Suffolk ( with E. Skepper ) ( 1866 ).

Their sons included George Henslow ( 1835 – 1925 ), who became the Royal Horticultural Society ’ s Professor of Botany.

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.

The sciences to be represented included: Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Pharmacy, all medical sciences-including Physiology, Anatomy et cetera, and Mathematics.

* 1788 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.

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 ).

The Newtown area was part of the land of the Cadigal band of the Eora people, who ranged across the entire area from the southern shores of Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay in the south-east and Petersham in the west.

This facility was part of the Eastern Command Fixed Defences unit, it was designed and positioned in a way that would allow it to protect the approaches to Botany Bay in the event of a sea born attack during the World War II period.

Botany and general scientific thinking were part of the fare.

Botany is located 10 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the City of Botany Bay.

The school is operated as part of the Botany Bay Network of schools within the Sydney Region.

As part of this the Panmure train station is currently undergoing a major upgrade, and a new 7 km busway is being built which will link Panmure train station with Pakuranga and Botany.

The greatest part of his Manual of Botany ( 2 vols., Malmoe, 1829 – 32 ) has been translated into German.

The line would allow greater efficiency in both commuter and freight services, and would form an important part in the development of the operations of Port Botany.

Their view of the colony and their place in it was eloquently stated by Captain David Collins: " From the disposition to crimes and the incorrigible character of the major part of the colonists, an odium was, from the first, illiberally thrown upon the settlement ; and the word " Botany Bay " became a term of reproach that was indiscriminately cast upon every one who resided in New South Wales.

It is part of the City of Botany Bay.

The eastern side of the peninsula is part of Botany Bay National Park, with sheer sandstone cliffs dominating the coastline.

The walkway and cycleway beside much of the " river " is part of the path connecting Sydney Olympic Park with Botany Bay.

Daceyville is 7 km south-east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the City of Botany Bay.

Eastlakes is located 8 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Botany Bay, and is part of the Eastern Suburbs region.

Eastgardens is located 9 km south east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the City of Botany Bay.

Botany of old.

It is notable for its old military outpost at Bare Island and the Botany Bay National Park.

Botany Bay is an old name for the area of Henbury centred on the modern Marmion Crescent believed to derive from the nineteenth century name of a row of cottages.

Later in the year, he did another album Fair Dinkum J. W., featuring old Aussie ballads such as " With My Swag Upon My Shoulder ", " Botany Bay " and " Brisbane Ladies ", as well as Williamson's own songs, including " Country Football ", " Kill The Night " and "( You've Gotta Be ) Fair Dinkum ", a duet with Karen Johns.

He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

He held the Chair of Botany at University College Dundee from 1888 to 1919, and the Chair of Sociology at the University of Bombay from 1919 to 1924.

The office was created in 1699, and from 1768 until 1956 it was combined with the office of Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, who also held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh.

He eventually became Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden of Montpellier and even held a seat in the Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris for a short while.

He won Botany in 1930 and held it to 1950 and he was then member for Maroubra until 1968.

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.

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.

He had instructions to investigate any colonies the British may have established and learned of the intention to settle Botany Bay and Norfolk Island from despatches sent to him from Paris through St. Petersburg and by land across Siberia to Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, where he received them on 26 September 1787, just four days before his departure from that port.

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

Prophetic observation of Sydney Cove by Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, from his poem " Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay ", ( 1789 ).

* 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.

* 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.

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 ).

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 ".

* Botany — An Earth-like agricultural world to which prisoners and slaves are transported in the Catteni Series by Anne McCaffrey.

Jacaranda jasminoides, plate by Paxton, published in his " Magazine of Botany "

This was followed by the Magazine of Botany in 1834, the Pocket Botanical Dictionary in 1840, The Flower Garden in 1850 and the Calendar of Gardening Operations.

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.

* Botany Bay is a historical fiction story written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about the trials and tribulations of the first European settlers of the Australian continent.

One account states that on the voyage out to Botany Bay a conspiracy was hatched by the convicts on board to seize the ship.

According to his biographer Richard S. Lambert, the first volume of Barrington's memoirs about Australia, " A Voyage to Botany Bay ," is the work of Barrington's that is least changed, or wholly invented, by editors and publishers.

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.

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.

* Botany Bay by Charles Chilton.