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…Primula. It was first collected by Buchanan-Hamilton en-route to Kathmandu, in the same area of Nepal as Clematis montana, on his 1802 visit, and was recognised for its horticultural potential…
…the wild. Clematis montana is another example of a plant species that was first collected by Buchanan-Hamilton in Nepal, en-route into Kathmandu in 1802. The species became established in UK…
25. Cycas pectinata Buchanan-Hamilton CYCADACEAE This species is a native of North-East India and mainland South-East Asia, where it occurs on subtropical hill slopes at altitudes of up to 1000…
…of Scripture. London: Religious Tract Society. Howie, John. Scots Worthies. The Cloud of Witnesses. Foxe, John. Book of martyrs. Buchanan, Robert. The ten years’ conflict: being the history of the…
…@NatureScot #NatureRestorationFund Acknowledgement: The detailed images of elm flowers have been created by Francis Principe-Gillespie using microphotography. They show wych elm flowers in greater detail than has previously been seen….
…mankini in fetching sky-blue. In the ‘Ecstasy of St Francis’ of c 1480 in the Frick Collection (in which the Saint is conventionally garbed), some extremely delicate stolons of Cymbalaria…
…“Summer Hyacinth”. Galtonia candicans The genus was named after Sir Francis Galton (1822 – 1911) who was a distant cousin of Charles Darwin and also of considerable intellect. He classified…
…lectures – one from Maryland (Gustavus Richard Brown), 4 from South Carolina (Thomas Caw, Isaac Chanler, Charles Drayton, Peter Faissoux) and one from Virginia (James McClurg). Also present was Francis…
…Inside As Out, Part One, by Anne-Marie Copestake, and Search Film by Duncan Marquiss. The artists will be joined by invited speakers Isla Leaver-Yapp, Project Director, Lux Scotland and Francis…
…his landlord was the Scottish Judge Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone, a great ‘improver’ who in in 1765 had built the model village of Laurencekirk (and in 1789 St Bernard’s Well…
…Sibbald must have meant 400 foot. Google Earth 2015 screen shot In our library we have a “The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)” by Francis Paget Hett (1932) which…
…artistic liberties were taken…) There is no information given on the origins of the plates, but the signatures on the plates (“Lydon”) give us a clue. Alexander Francis Lydon was…
…after a recommendation for re-enlistment given by Professor Francis Mitchell Caird of the Royal Infirmary, artist for the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and contemporary of RBGE Regius Keeper Isaac Bayley…
…the way. The voyage laid the foundation of modern deep-sea studies and described many species new to science. One of the junior naval officers on board was Sub-Lieutenant Andrew Francis…
…Silvaea and Silvianthus are named after Francis de Silva, botanical collector See in stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/3472 Andre Trombeta Silvaea and Silvianthus are named after Francis de Silva, botanical collector See in stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/34728…
…var. atrokermesinum, collected by Francis Kingdon-Ward. The final flower for the week is yet to unfurl fully, but still looks magnificent in bud. The spiky bracts of Rhododendron pudorosum make…
…Lucien André Labourer, 18th January 1937. Joined Royal Artillery, 3rd September 1939, Rank – Lance Bombardier. Service in India, Assam and Burma. Demobilised 5th May 1946. Lee, Francis Probationer Gardener,…
…Food’. First on the list of its jury members was Lt. Col. Arthur McCally who in 1860 became president of the Agri-Horticultural Society. Its second member was Colonel Francis Archibald…
…as seed sent from Francis Kingdon-Ward who collected it in North Burma close to the borders of India and China on the 16th of April 1931 – conicidentally yesterday was…
…by Mount Everest Committee Chairman, Sir Francis Younghusband (1863-1942). The letter was originally sent to the new Director of Kew, Arthur Hill (1875-1941), and forwarded on to Balfour, shortly before…