langs: 13 апреля [ru] / april 13 [en] / 13. april [de] / 13 avril [fr] / 13 aprile [it] / 13 de abril [es]
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The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remai
Charles Schweinfurth (April 13, 1890 – November 16, 1970) was an American botanist and plant collector who distinguished himself by his studies on orchids. [1] He predominantly collected species from Peru which he described in his four volume reference work Orchids of Peru (1958). He was a researche
Jean Louis Léon Guignard (13 April 1852 in Mont-sous-Vaudrey – 7 March 1928 in Paris ) was a French pharmacist and botanist . French pharmacist and botanist (1852–1928) In 1882 he received his doctorate of sciences in Paris, and afterwards served as a professor of botany at the Faculty of Sciences o
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein (Amsterdam, 13 April 1636 – at sea, 15 December 1691) was a military man and a colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company and naturalist . Between 1669 and 1676 he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar and employed twenty-five people on his book
Erwin Frink Smith (January 21, 1854 – April 6, 1927) was an American plant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture . He played a major role in demonstrating that bacteria could cause plant disease . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] For the Attack on Titan character, see List of Attack on Tit
Bain Hugh Clapperton (18 May 1788 – 13 April 1827) was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa . Hugh Clapperton An engraving by Thomas Goff Lupton from a picture by Gildon Manton (1828) Born ( 1788-05-18 ) 18 May 1788 Annan, Dumfriesshire Died 13 April 1827 (1827-04-13) (ag
Donovan "Don" Stewart Correll (13 April 1908, Wilson, North Carolina – 28 March 1983, Miami, Florida ) was an American botanist, plant collector, and plant taxonomist, specializing in orchids . Donovan Stewart Correll Born 13 April 1908 Wilson Died 28 March 1983 (aged 74) Alma mater Duke Uni
Gillian Sally Bidgood (13 April 1948, in Corbridge – 18 March 2018, in Hammersmith ) was a British botanist and plant collector noted for her study of the flora of Ethiopia , Zambia , and Tanzania , particularly Bignoniaceae . [1] [2] [3] British botanist (1948-2018) She attended Ackworth School (19
#8 Isa Degener
Isa Irmgard Degener née Hansen (April 27, 1924, [1] Berlin – April 13, 2018, Waialua, Hawaii [2] ) was a German-American plant collector and botanist, specializing in agrostology . [3] She is known as the coauthor of Flora Hawaiiensis . [4] American botanist Isa Hansen studied botany at the Universi
#9 Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
Jean-Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent [n 1] was a French naturalist , officer and politician . He was born on 6 July 1778 in Agen ( Lot-et-Garonne ) and died on 22 December 1846 in Paris . Biologist and geographer , he was particularly interested in volcanology , systematics and bo
#10 Pietro Arduino
Pietro Arduino (18 July 1728, in Caprino Veronese – 13 April 1805, in Padua ) was an Italian botanist. The standard author abbreviation Ard. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [1] This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding artic
#11 Harold Leslie Keer Whitehouse
Harold Leslie Keer Whitehouse (13 April 1917 – 18 January 2000) was a British botanist and bryologist. He is credited with a discovery of a number of species, as well as with being a president of the British Bryological Society . [1] UK botanist (1917–2000) Whitehouse was born in Churchdown , Glouce
#12 Howard Stansbury
Howard Stansbury (February 8, 1806 – April 17, 1863) was a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers . His most notable achievement was leading a two-year expedition (1849–1851) to survey the Great Salt Lake and its surroundings. The expedition report entitled Exploration and survey of
#13 John Mitchell (geographer)
John Mitchell (April 13, 1711 – February 29, 1768) was a colonial American physician and botanist . He created the most comprehensive and perhaps largest 18th-century map of eastern North America , known today as the Mitchell Map . First published in 1755, in conjunction with the imminent Seven Year
Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978) [1] was an American botanist. U.S. botanist (1895–1978) Roxana Stinchfield Ferris At botany desk, Dudley Herbarium, Stanford University Born Roxana Judkins Stinchfield April 13, 1895 Sycamore, California Died June 30, 1978 Palo Alto
#15 Andrew Sinclair (botanist)
Andrew Sinclair (13 April 1794 – 26 March 1861) was a British surgeon who was notable for his botanical collections. He served as New Zealand's second Colonial Secretary . Andrew Sinclair Portrait of Andrew Sinclair. 2nd Colonial Secretary of New Zealand In office 6 January 1844 – 7 May 1856 Gover
#16 Werner Rothmaler
Werner Walter Hugo Paul Rothmaler (born 20 August 1908 in Sangerhausen , died 13 April 1962 in Leipzig ) was a German botanist and from 1953 until 1962 head of the Institute for Agricultural Biology of the University of Greifswald . His areas of expertise included plant geography and systematics .
Albert Brown Lyons (born Waimea , Hawaiian Kingdom , April 1, 1841; died Detroit , Michigan , April 13, 1926) was a notable analytical and pharmaceutical chemist who also published works on geology, plant names, and genealogy.
#18 Robert Fortune
Robert Fortune (16 September 1812 – 13 April 1880) [1] [2] was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental plants, mainly from China , but also Japan , into the gardens of Britain, Australia, and the USA. He also played a role in the developm
#19 Zdeněk Pouzar
Zdeněk Pouzar (born 13 April 1932) is a Czech mycologist . Along with František Kotlaba , he published several works about the taxonomy of polypore , corticioid , and gilled fungi. Pouzar is a noted expert on stromatic pyrenomycetes . Until 2012, he was the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal
#20 Emilie Snethlage
Maria Emilie Snethlage (April 13, 1868 – November 25, 1929) was a German -born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon. Snethlage collected in Brazil from 1905 until her death. She was the director of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi from 1914 to 1922. Sever
#1 Berlin Zoo
The Berlin Zoological Garden ( German: Zoologischer Garten Berlin ) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares (86.5 acres) and is located in Berlin 's Tiergarten . With about 1,380 different species and over 20,200 animals, the zoo presents one of t
SeaWorld San Diego is an animal theme park , oceanarium , outside aquarium and marine mammal park , in San Diego , California , United States, inside Mission Bay Park . It is owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment . Theme park in San Diego, California For the SeaWorld chain of parks, s
#3 Aquarium of Western Australia
The Aquarium of Western Australia ( AQWA ) is a privately owned aquarium in Hillarys, Western Australia . AQWA was Australia's largest aquarium when it opened and still possesses Australia's largest single aquarium and walk-through underwater tunnel . [2] "AQWA" redirects here. For the capital of Ab