langs: 4 августа [ru] / august 4 [en] / 4. august [de] / 4 août [fr] / 4 agosto [it] / 4 de agosto [es]
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Palaquium galactoxylum , commonly known as Cairns pencil cedar , Daintree maple or red silkwood , is a species of very large tree in the family Sapotaceae which is endemic to rainforests of New Guinea and northern Australia . It can produce spectacularly large buttress roots . Species of tree in the
#1 John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , KG , PC , FSA Scot ( / b j uː t / ; 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III . He was arguably the last important royal favouri
#2 John Tradescant the Younger
John Tradescant the Younger ( / t r ə ˈ d ɛ s k ə n t / ; 4 August 1608 – 22 April 1662), son of John Tradescant the Elder , was a botanist and gardener. The standard author abbreviation Trad. is applied to species he described. This article needs additional citations for verification . ( December 2
Kenneth D. Hill (6 August 1948 – 4 August 2010) was an Australian botanist , notable for his work on eucalypts , the systematics , evolution and conservation of the genus Cycas , as well as on botanical informatics . He was born in Armidale, New South Wales . He worked with the National Herbarium of
Jacob George Strutt (4 August 1784 – 1867) [2] [lower-alpha 1] was a British portrait and landscape painter and engraver in the manner of John Constable . He was the husband of the writer Elizabeth Strutt , and father of the painter, traveller and archaeologist Arthur John Strutt . [3] British lands
Jean-Jacques Paulet (26 April 1740 – 4 August 1826) was a French mycologist. Jean-Jacques Paulet Paulet was born in Anduze , France and studied medicine in Montpellier , where he received his PhD in March 1764. He published in Paris in 1765 a book titled d’Histoire de la petite vérole, avec les moye
Caroline Barbey-Boissier (4 August 1847, in Geneva – 18 January 1918, in Pregny-Chambésy ) was a Swiss botanist , author and translator. She was the daughter of botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier . [1] [2] [3] Swiss botanist (1847–1918) This article needs additional citations for verification . ( Augus
Félix de Avelar Brotero (25 November 1744 – 4 August 1828) was a Portuguese botanist and professor. He fled to France in 1788 to escape persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition , and there published his Compendio de Botanica in order to earn his living. It immediately established his reputation as
Georg Heinrich Leopold Dippel (4 August 1827 – 4 March 1914) was a German botanist. He was the son of a royal Bavarian forester, Carl Friedrich Peter Dippel, and Sussanna Purpus. He attended schools in Kaiserslautern and Zweibrücken . From 1845, he studied at the Academy of Forestry in Aschaffenburg
#9 Edith Kann
Edith Kann (19 April 1907, Krems an der Donau – 7 October 1987, Vienna) was an Austrian teacher and botanist, specializing in phycology . She was a leading expert on blue-green algae . [1] [2] Lunzer See [3] (Lake Lunz) as seen looking northward from the southern shore. When Kann worked here on her
Albert Israel Schatz (2 February 1920 – 17 January 2005) was an American microbiologist and academic, who discovered the antibiotic streptomycin , [1] the first drug known to be effective for the treatment of tuberculosis . [2] He graduated from Rutgers University in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in
#11 Henri Lecoq
Henri Lecoq (18 April 1802 – 4 August 1871) was a French botanist. Charles Darwin mentioned this name in 1859 in the preface of his famous book On The Origin of Species as a believer in the modification of species. Darwin wrote: [1] A well-known French botanist, M. Lecoq, writes in 1854 ('Etudes sur
Robert David FitzGerald (or possibly Robert Desmond FitzGerald [1] ) (30 November 1830 – 12 August 1892) was an Irish - Australian surveyor , ornithologist , [2] botanist and poet . This article is about the early Australian botanist. For his poet grandson, see R. D. Fitzgerald . Robert D. FitzGeral
Jean Odon Debeaux (4 August 1826, Agen – 20 February 1910, Toulouse ) was a French military pharmacist , botanist and malacologist . French botanist In 1854 he qualified as a pharmacist in Paris , then joined the French Army, and from 1854 to 1859 was stationed in Algeria ( Algiers , Boghar and in t
Barbara Pickersgill (born 1940) is a British botanist with a special interest in the domestication of crops, the genetics , taxonomy , and evolutionary biology of cultivated plants, and the preservation of crop diversity . Her 1966 dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana Uni
Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski [lower-alpha 1] ( Russian : Константи́н Серге́евич Мережко́вский , IPA: [mʲɪrʲɪˈʂkofskʲɪj] ; 4 August 1855 [ O.S. 23 July ] – 9 January 1921) was a prominent Russian biologist and botanist , active mainly around Kazan , Tatarstan , whose research on lichens led
#16 Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP [6] ( / ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / ; [7] DAR -win ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist , geologist , and biologist , [8] widely known for contributing to the understanding of evolutionary biology . [I] His proposition that all species of life
#17 Hélène Durand
Hélène Durand (9 August 1883 Watermael-Boitsfort - 4 August 1934 Uccle ) was a Belgian botanical illustrator. Belgian botanist and botanical artist (1883-1934) This article uses bare URLs , which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot . ( September 2022 ) Ophrys apifera She was the daughter of
Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker , ecologist, naturalist , artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture
#19 Christian Nikolai Richard Pohle
Christian Nikolai Richard Pohle ( Russian : Рихард Рихардович Поле , Richard Richardovytch Pohle; 5 August 1869 – 4 August 1926) was a Baltic German botanist.
Henry Eamonn Connor CNZM (4 August 1922 – 26 July 2016) was a New Zealand botanist and science administrator. He was an expert on New Zealand poisonous plants and the taxonomy and reproductive biology of New Zealand grasses, and served as the director of the Botany Division of the New Zealand Depart
Knie's Kinderzoo (German: Knies Kinderzoo ) is a zoo aimed for children. It is located in the Swiss municipality of Rapperswil . Equus zebra and Giraffa camelopardalis Children's pirate ship Two Asian elephants Two Meerkats The giraffes : Luana and Mala , and the two "J's" (born in March 2011) Zoo i
#2 Baghdad Zoo
The Baghdad Zoo is a 200-acre (81 ha) zoo originally opened in 1971 and located in Baghdad , Iraq , in the Al Zawra’a Gardens area along with the Al Zawra’a Dream Park (amusement park) and Zawra'a Tower. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq , the zoo housed 650 animals. After being nearly destroyed du