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William Bertram Turrill
William Bertram Turrill FRS OBE FLS (14 June 1890 – 15 December 1961) was an English botanist. Education He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire to William Banbury and Thirza Mary (née Homan) Turrill and educated at the Woodstock National School. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British Army during the First World War, mainly on the Macedonian front. Career Turrill worked in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and was responsible for many innovations including a mathematical classification of leaf shapes. Awards and honours Turrill received the Order of the British Empire in 1955 and the gold medal of the Linnean Society in 1958. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1958 as someone: This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas, urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. With a population of approximately 1.2 million people, Surrey is the 12th-most populous county in England. The most populated town in Surrey is Woking, followed by Guildford. The county is divided into eleven districts with borough status. Between 1893 and 2020, Surrey County Council was headquartered at County Hall, Kingston upon Thames, County Hall, Kingston-upon-Thames (now part of Greater London) but is now based at Woodhatch Place, Reigate. In the 20th century several alterations were made to Surrey's borders, with territory ceded to Greater London upon its creation and some gained from the abolition of Middlesex. Surrey is bordered by Greater London to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Turrilliana
''Veronica turrilliana'' ( bg, Търилово великденче) is a species of speedwell in the family Plantaginaceae, endemic to the Strandzha mountain range in south-eastern Bulgaria and north-western Turkey. It is included in the Red Book of Bulgaria as an endangered species. and is categorized as data deficient by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It was described in 1923 by the Bulgarian botanists Nikolai Stojanov and Boris Stefanoff. Morphology ''Veronica turrilliana'' has a vertical rhizome, the stems are straight, branched, reaching height of 8 to 35 cm. The leaves are consecutive, skeletal, ovate, elliptic to lanceolate, with small glands. The flowers are in loose grape-shaped raceme; the petals are purple-blue, with a light yellow ring in the middle. The bracts are whole, lanceolate and uncovered. The fruit is an oval, slightly biconvex box. Flowering is in April–May. It is an insect-pollinating plant and propagates by seed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellows Of The Linnean Society Of London
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Fellows may refer to Fellow, in plural form. Fellows or Fellowes may also refer to: Places *Fellows, California, USA *Fellows, Wisconsin, ghost town, USA Other uses *Fellows Auctioneers, established in 1876. *Fellowes, Inc., manufacturer of workspace products *Fellows, a partner in the firm of English canal carriers, Fellows Morton & Clayton *Fellows (surname) See also *North Fellows Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wapello County, Iowa *Justice Fellows (other) Justice Fellows may refer to: *Grant Fellows Grant Fellows (April 13, 1865 – July 16, 1929) was an American jurist. Born in Hudson Township, Lenawee County, Michigan, Fellows went to Hudson High School in Hudson, Michigan. Fellows studied la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellows Of The Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science". Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venki Ramakrishnan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Medal Of Honour (Horticulture) Recipients
The Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) is awarded to British horticulturists resident in the United Kingdom whom the Royal Horticultural Society Council considers deserving of special honour by the Society. The award was established in 1897 "in perpetual remembrance of Her Majesty's glorious reign, and to enable the Council to confer honour on British horticulturists." The Society's rules state that only sixty-three horticulturists can hold the VMH at any given time, in commemoration of the sixty-three years of Queen Victoria's reign. Therefore, the honour is not awarded every year, but may be made to multiple recipients in other years. Awards 1897 – The first 60 medallists The first 60 medals were awarded on 26 October 1897: *John Gilbert Baker (1834–1920) * Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922) * Peter Barr (1826–1909) * Archibald F Barron (1835–1903) * Edward John Beale (1835–1902) *William Boxall (1844–1910) * William Bull (1828–1902) *George Bunyard (1841–1919) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veitch Memorial Medal Recipients
Veitch or Vetch is a Scottish surname, and may refer to: Veitch * Arthur Veitch (1844–1880), horticulturist * Bill Veitch (1870–1961), New Zealand politician * Champion Doug Veitch (born 1960), Scottish musician and songwriter * Colin Veitch (1881–1938), England and Newcastle United footballer * Darren Veitch (born 1960), Canadian hockey player * Edward W. Veitch (1924–2013), American mathematician * Harry Veitch (1840–1924), horticulturist * Heather Veitch (born 1973/4), American Christian missionary and former stripper * James Veitch, Lord Elliock (1712–1793), Scottish lawyer and politician, MP for Dumfriesshire 1755–61, judge from 1761 * James Veitch (horticulturist) (1792–1863), horticulturist * James Veitch, Jr. (1815–1869), horticulturist * James Herbert Veitch (1868–1907), horticulturist * James Veitch (comedian) (born 1980), comedian * James Alexander Veitch (born 1940), academic, theologian, historian * Joel Veitch (born 1974), English web an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Botanists
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Botanists With Author Abbreviations
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women. A * Erik Acharius *Julián Acuña Galé *Johann Friedrich Adam *Carl Adolph Agardh * Jacob Georg Agardh *Nikolaus Ager *William Aiton * Frédéric-Louis Allamand *Carlo Allioni *Prospero Alpini * Benjamin Alvord *Adeline Ames *Eliza Frances Andrews *Agnes Arber *Giovanni Arcangeli *David Ashton * William Guybon Atherstone *Anna Atkins *Daniel E. Atha *Armen Takhtajan B * Ernest Brown Babcock * Churchill Babington * Curt Backeberg * James Eustace Bagnall * Jacob Whitman Bailey *Liberty Hyde Bailey * Ibn al-Baitar *Giovanni Battista Balbis * John Hutton Balfour *Joseph Banks *César Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Woodstock, Oxfordshire
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Deaths
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 Births
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyperus Turrillii
''Cyperus turrillii'' is a species of sedge that is native to parts of central and southern Africa. The species was first formally described by the botanist Georg Kükenthal Georg Kükenthal (30 March 1864 in Weißenfels – 20 October 1955 in Coburg) was a German pastor and botanist who specialized in the field of caricology. He was the brother of zoologist Willy Kükenthal (1861–1922). From 1882 to 1885 he studi ... in 1931. See also * List of ''Cyperus'' species References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15536682 turrillii Taxa named by Georg Kükenthal Plants described in 1931 Flora of Angola Flora of Zambia Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Flora of the Republic of the Congo Flora of Botswana Flora of Tanzania Flora of Zimbabwe Flora of Malawi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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