H.Pfeiff.
Hans Heinrich Pfeiffer, (born 1896) was a German botanist and physiologist, with a particular interest in spermatophytes. (Discussion on JSTOR gives 1896 as his birth year and 1970 as his death year, as does the Russian Wikipedia article. This conflicts with IPNI which gives his birth year as 1890.) Some published names (incomplete list) *Cyperaceae ''Androtrichum giganteum ''(Kunth) H.Pfeiff. Revista Sudamer. Bot. 6: 185. 1940 *Cyperaceae ''Androtrichum trigynum'' (Spreng.) H.Pfeiff. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 42: 10. 1937 *Cyperaceae ''Becquerelia bicolor'' H.Pfeiff. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 18: 381. 1922 *Cyperaceae ''Becquerelia bicolor'' H.Pfeiff. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 18: 381. 1922 *Cyperaceae ''Becquerelia bicolor'' f. ''humilis'' H.Pfeiff. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 18: 382. 1922 *Cyperaceae ''Becquerelia bicolor'' f. ''ramosissima'' H.Pfeiff. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 18: 382. 1922 *Cyperaceae ''Becquerelia bicolor'' f. ''verticillata'' H.Pfeif ...
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Botany
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning " pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – ed ...
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Kuster
Kuster is a surname; notable people with this surname include:: * Andrew Kuster (born 1969), American writer, composer, conductor; former husband of Kristin Kuster * Ann McLane Kuster (Annie Kuster, born 1956), United States attorney and politician * Anton Kuster (born 1923), Swiss sprint canoer * Bill Kuster (1930–2006), American television meteorologist * Brigitte Kuster (born 1959), French politician * Judith Kuster, American speech-language pathologist * Kristin Kuster (born 1973), American composer; former spouse of Andrew Kuster * Selina Kuster (born 1991), Swiss footballer See also * Kuster Mill, historic fulling mill in Pennsylvania *Küster Küster may refer to: * Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster (1839–1930), German surgeon * Ernst Küster (1874–1953), German botanist * Heinrich Carl Küster (1807–1876), malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals ...

1896 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation (later known as X-rays). * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope, for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 18 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at (exceeding the contemporary speed limit of , the first spee ...
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