langs: 4 февраля [ru] / february 4 [en] / 4. februar [de] / 4 février [fr] / 4 febbraio [it] / 4 de febrero [es]
days: february 1 / february 2 / february 3 / february 4 / february 5 / february 6 / february 7
This is a list of notable pigs . Famous swine Wild boars, by Walter Moras (1856–1925)
#2 Asian carp in North America
Asian carp introduced into North America pose a major threat to the ecology, environment, economy, and way of life in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada . The term " Asian carp " refers to a group of cyprinid fish species originally native to East Asia , which i
Jean Louis Émile Boudier (6 January 1828, in Garnay – 4 February 1920, in Blois ) was a pharmacist who lived in Montmorency , France . He published a fair amount about the Discomycetes and other areas of mycology . He often used Émile as his first name. French pharmacist and mycologist "Boud." redir
#2 Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer , geographer , and mathematician . He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador , measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astr
George Engelmann , also known as Georg Engelmann , (2 February 1809 – 4 February 1884) was a German-American botanist . He was instrumental in describing the flora of the west of North America, then very poorly known to Europeans; he was particularly active in the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico
Eleanor Marion Bennett (born 4 February 1942) (née Scrymgeour) is an Australian botanist who was employed by the Western Australian Herbarium from 1965 to 1970. She collected Eucalyptus species in the south-west of Western Australia and published a revision of the genus Hybanthus in 1972. [2] [3] Sh
Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (24 November 1864 – 4 February 1938) was a French physician born in Nantes . He specialized in dermatology and mycology , and was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. "Sabour." redirects here. For other uses, see Sabour (disambiguation) . Sabouraud Raymond He s
Karlheinz Senghas (7 April 1928 – 4 February 2004) was a German botanist and orchidologist . He was a curator, scientific director, and academic director of the University of Heidelberg's Botanical Garden from 1960 until his retirement in 1993. He was also president of the Deutsche Orchideen-Gesells
Julius Hermann Schultes (4 February 1804 in Vienna – 1 September 1840 in Munich ) was an Austrian botanist from Vienna . He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes (1773-1831). [1] Austrian botanist (1804–1840) He studie
George Chandler Whipple (March 2, 1866 – November 27, 1924) was an American civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health . Whipple published some of the most impor
Olav Gjærevoll (24 September 1916 – 30 August 1994) was a Norwegian botanist and politician for the Labour Party . Gjærevoll was a professor of botany at the University of Trondheim from 1958 to 1986, and was a specialist in alpine plants. In politics, he served as Minister of Social Affairs from Fe
Aline Marie Raynal (4 February 1937 – 16 July 2022) is a French botanist and botanical illustrator noted for studying the taxonomy of parasitic and aquatic tropical plants, as well as plants of the Sahel desert. [1] She was professor of botany at the Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle de Paris . I
#11 Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (February 4, 1877 – January 8, 1957) was an American bacteriologist and public health expert who was, according to the Encyclopedia of Public Health , [1] "a seminal figure in public health, not only in his own country, the United States, but in the wider Western world."
#12 Luis Née
Luis Née (July 12, 1735 – October 3, 1807) was a French-born Spanish botanist and prolific collector of plant specimens who accompanied the Malaspina Expedition on its five-year scientific exploration of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands. In addition to his botanical work he was a pharmacist w
Norton George Miller (1942–2011) was an American bryologist and paleobotanist. He was the president of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society from 1985 to 1987. Norton G. Miller Born ( 1942-02-04 ) February 4, 1942 Buffalo, New York , US Died December 7, 2011 (2011-12-07) (aged 69) Sy
#14 Maruja Carrasco
María Andrea Carrasco de Salazar , best known as Maruja Carrasco (4 February 1944 – 1 August 2018), was a Spanish botanist and academic. She had a key role in the modernization of herbaria in Spain. [2] Spanish botanist In this Spanish name , the first or paternal surname is Carrasco and the second
#15 Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (4 February 1776, Bremen – 16 February 1837, Bremen) was a German physician , naturalist , and proto-evolutionary biologist . For the German politician in the Weimar Republic , see Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (politician) . Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus Born ( 1776-02
#16 Dixon Denham
Dixon Denham (1 January 1786 – 9 June 1828) was an English soldier, explorer of West Central Africa , and ultimately Governor of Sierra Leone . British explorer and Governor of Sierra Leone An 1826 portrait of Dixon Denham by Thomas Phillips
#17 Gustavo Venturi
Gustavo Venturi (4 February 1830, in Rovereto – 5 June 1898) was an Italian bryologist . Italian bryologist (1830–1898) After graduating with a law degree, Venturi worked as an attorney in Trento , from where he researched bryology as a hobby. He was the author of 20 articles on the taxonomy of the
#18 Walter Hill (garden curator)
Walter Hill (1820 – 1904) was the first curator of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Gardens Point in Brisbane , Australia . Walter Hill
#19 Hugh M. Raup
Hugh Miller Raup (February 4, 1901 – August 10, 1995) was an American botanist , ecologist and geographer working on natural history and natural resource management in diverse regions—from tropical and temperate to arctic. [1]
#20 Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess
Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess aka Willi Giess (21 February 1910, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 28 September 2000, in Swakopmund ) [1] is noted for having started an official herbarium at Windhoek , his extensive collection of Namibian plants and generally furthering botanical knowledge of the territory. [2]
Edinburgh Zoo , formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park , is an 82-acre (33 ha) non-profit zoological park in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh , Scotland. Zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Edinburgh Zoo Date opened 22 July 1913 [1] Location Edinburgh , Scotland, UK Coordinates 55
Sealand of the Pacific was a public aquarium in South Oak Bay at The Oak Bay Marina , near the city of Victoria , in British Columbia , Canada . It housed a number of orcas : Haida, Nootka, and Tilikum . In 1991, all three were involved in an incident in which a trainer, Keltie Byrne , was killed. T