Three hundred acres of botanical delights grace Kew Gardens, which lies on the south bank of the Thames River between Richmond and Kew in the suburbs of south-west London. If you're a stickler for accuracy you might like to note that the proper way to refer to Kew is in the plural, i...
Dr.Peter Robertswas a senior mycologist at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK. He is the coauthor ofNew Naturalist: Fungi,Checklist of the British and Irish Basidomycota, andBritish Chanterella and Tooth Fungi. He is also on the editorial boards ofField Mycology,Mycological Progress,Czech...
•A new exhibition exploring the life of one of the City of London’s most famous Lord Mayors has opened at the City of London’s Guildhall Library.Marking the library’s 600th anniversary,Whittington, the Man, the Myth and the Catuses chapbooks (small printed booklets used for street li...
historyEstablished in 1817, the 30 hectares of the Royal Botanic Gardens wrap around Farm Cove on the edge of the scenic Sydney Harbour. Home of some of the oldest botanic collections within Australia, these Gardens provide a treasure of genera, plant types and living history....
so much more to the man, not least establishing theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kewon a scientific footing and being the driving force behind the establishment of the penal colony at Sydney Cove. As such is is much better remembered in Down Under where he is often called the Father of Australia....
Founder of the famous Kew Gardens, Londo. Somerset House Lodge UGLE Banks, Nathaniel P.” The fighting politician” Governor of Massachusetts, Civil War Maj. General, Senator and US Marshal. One of fourteen Union officers who received the Thanks of Congress. Monitor Lodge MA. Barham, Eugene A...
December 8, 1931 - Lloyd Espenschied, of Kew Gardens, NY, and Herman A. Affel, of Ridgewood, NJ, received a patent for "Concentric Conducting System"; coaxial cable; application was television, requires wide range of transmission frequencies; assigned to AT & T. February 10, 1933 - Posta...
A decade later, Genovese met her girlfriend, Mary Ann Zielonko, in a Greenwich Village nightclub. The two found a second-floor apartment together in Kew Gardens in Queens, considered a peaceful, safe area to live. THE INVESTIGATION It was 4 a.m. when police knocked on the apartment door...
(1888–1965); andKew Gardensby Virginia Woolf. The policy of the Hogarth Press was to publish the best and most original work that came to its attention, and the Woolfs as publishers favored young and unknown writers. Virginia's older sister Vanessa, who married the critic Clive Bell, ...
This publication was based on works presented at the workshop "Biodiversity and Conservation of the Gulf of Guinea Islands", held in June 1993 at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust (Butnyski and Koster 1994; Castelo 1994; Castroviejo et al. 1994a, b; Colell et al. 1994; Del Val ...