langs: 26 августа [ru] / august 26 [en] / 26. august [de] / 26 août [fr] / 26 agosto [it] / 26 de agosto [es]
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This is a list of giant pandas , both alive and deceased. The giant panda is a conservation-reliant vulnerable species . [1] Wild population estimates vary; one estimate shows that there are about 1,590 individuals living in the wild, [2] while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimated that this figur
#2 List of longest living dogs
This is a list of the oldest verified dogs in the world, listed by age, all of whom have attained the minimum age of 20. Aging in dogs depends on breed, size and diet. This article possibly contains inappropriate or misinterpreted citations that do not verify the text . ( October 2015 )
Argophyllum curtum is a plant in the Argophyllaceae family endemic to a small part of north eastern Queensland . It was described and named in 2018. Species of plant in the family Argophyllaceae Argophyllum curtum Conservation status Least Concern ( NCA ) [1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Pla
Over 7,500 cultivars of the culinary or eating apple ( Malus domestica ) are known. [1] Some are extremely important economically as commercial products, though the vast majority are not suitable for mass production. In the following list, use for "eating" means that the fruit is consumed raw, rathe
Harry Marshall Ward (21 March 1854 – 26 August 1906), FRS , FLS , was a British botanist , mycologist , and plant pathologist . Ward in 1895 (41 years old) Born in Hereford , the eldest child of Francis and Mary Marshall Ward, [1] Harry Ward was educated at Lincoln Cathedral school. from c. 1864. He
Adolf von Schlagintweit (9 January 1829 – 26 August 1857) was a German botanist and explorer of Central Asia . Brothers Hermann , Adolf and Robert Schlagintweit were commissioned by the British East India Company to study the earth's magnetic field in South and Central Asia. They were the first Euro
Orazio Antinori (28 October 1811 – 26 August 1882) was an Italian explorer and zoologist . Orazio Antinori Antinori was born in Perugia (then in the Papal States ) and studied natural history in Perugia and Rome. Afterwards he collaborated with Charles Lucien Bonaparte and illustrated Iconografia de
James De Carle Sowerby (5 June 1787 – 26 August 1871) was a British mineralogist , botanist , and illustrator. He received an education in chemistry . [1] James De Carle Sowerby James De Carle Sowerby Terrapene clausa from Monograph of the Testudinata Sowerby was born in London, the son of botanical
Jacques Cambessèdes (26 August 1799 – 19 October 1863) was a French botanist born in Montpellier . [1] In March – June 1825, prompted by suggestions of Jaques Étienne Gay and Alexander von Humboldt , Cambessèdes performed investigations involving flora of the Balearic Islands . From this expedition
Iris Sheila Collenette (née Darnton) (26 August 1927 – 24 July 2017) was a British botanist , plant collector , and author noted for her work on the flora of Saudi Arabia , particularly her books An illustrated guide to the flowers of Saudi Arabia and Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia . [1] [2] The specie
#7 Frederik Willem van Eeden (botanist)
Frederik Willem van Eeden (26 October 1829, in Haarlem – 4 May 1901, in Haarlem) was a Dutch amateur botanist. He was the father of the writer Frederik van Eeden . Dutch botanist (1829–1901) Frederik Willem van Eeden F.W. van Eeden (by Thérèse Schwartze (1899)) Born 26 August 1829 Haarlem Died 4 May
Rolla Milton Tryon Jr. (August 26, 1916 – August 20, 2001) was an American botanist who specialized in the systematics and evolution of ferns and other spore-dispersed plants ( pteridology ). His particular focus and interest lay in two areas, historical biogeography of ferns and the taxonomy of tro
#9 Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr
Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (8 April 1780, Quickborn – 26 August 1808, Kiel ) was a German botanist . German botanist (1780–1808) As a young botanist from Schleswig-Holstein , he started his career as a pupil of Johan Christian Fabricius at Kiel and Heinrich Adolf Schrader at the University of Göt
#10 Elsie M. Burrows
Elsie May Burrows (née Pearson ) (14 September 1913 – 26 August 1986) was an English botanist who made significant contributions to British postwar phycology . [1] [2] Her primary area of research was macroalgal ecology , focusing particularly on Fucus , a genus of brown algae , and Chlorophyta , a
Hugh Carson Cutler (8 September 1912, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – 12 September 1998, Topeka, Kansas ) was a plant taxonomist, economic botanist, plant collector, and pioneer of paleoethnobotany . [1] [2] Hugh Carson Cutler Hugh Cutler demonstrating flotation at Point of Pines Field School in Arizona 23 J
#12 John Medley Wood
John Medley Wood (1 December 1827 Mansfield , Nottinghamshire, England – 26 August 1915 Durban ) [1] was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosaic virus immune Uba sugar cane in Natal and for his
#13 Edward Forbes
Edward Forbes FRS , FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) [1] was a Manx naturalist . In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland, during the recent ice age . [2] This mechanism, which
#14 Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology ), palaeontology , geology , archaeology and anthropology . "d'Orbigny" redirects here. For other uses, see d
#15 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist , zoologist , comparative anatomist , geologist , and microscopist. Ehrenberg was an evangelist [2] and was considered to be of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. German biologist (1795–1876) Chr
Dr. Hinrich Johannes Rink (first name sometimes as Henrik) (26 August 1819 – 15 December 1893) was a Danish geologist , [1] one of the pioneers of glaciology , [2] and the first accurate describer of the inland ice of Greenland . [3] Rink, who first came to Greenland in 1848, spent 16 winters and 22
Patricio Ponce de León (August 26, 1915 – February 26, 2010) was a Cuban mycologist . He was a professor at Belen School in Havana and at the University of Havana , and later a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois . He wrote a monograph on the worldwide species of the
#18 Louis Feuillée
Louis Éconches Feuillée (sometimes spelled Feuillet ) (1660, Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 18 April 1732) was a French member of the Order of the Minims , explorer, astronomer, geographer, and botanist. Louis Éconches Feuillée Feuillée, pointing at a map of Martinique . Born 1660 Mane, Alpes-de-Ha
Félix-Archimède Pouchet (26 August 1800 – 6 December 1872) was a French naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur 's germ theory . [1] He was the father of Georges Pouchet (1833–1894), a professor of compa
#20 Václav Melzer
Václav Melzer (26 August 1878 – 1 May 1968) was a Czech teacher and mycologist , who was part of a group of Czech teachers who became mycologists at the beginning of the 20th century that also included figures such as Jindřich Kučera , Rudolf Veselý , and František Tyttl . [1] A substantial part of