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The story follows Alma Whittaker, daughter of a botanical explorer, as she comes into her own within the world of plants and science. As Alma’s careful studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she starts a spiritual journey which spans the 19th Century.
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (née Knight) (January 9, 1858 – February 25, 1934) was an American botanist, bryologist, and educator.She and her husband, Nathaniel Lord Britton, played a significant role in the fundraising and creation of the New York Botanical Garden.
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname.The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name.
Joseph Whittaker (1813 – 2 March 1894) was a British botanist who visited South Australia in 1839. Whittaker has 300 plants from that trip in Kew Gardens [ 1 ] and a large collection of pressed British plants in Derby Museum and Art Gallery .
1832–43 Oxford British Phaenogamous Botany William Baxter J.H. Parker Whittaker, Treacher and Company 1833 Berlin Flora regni Borussici : flora des Königreichs Preussen oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der in Preussen wildwachsenden Pflanzen Albert Gottfried Dietrich (1795-1856) Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805-1860) [ 62 ]
Botanist 1872 1949 United States: Alice Pegler: South African botanist 1861-07-21 1929-06-17 South Africa: Alicia Amherst: English horticulturist and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history. 1865 1941 Alicia Lourteig: Argentine botanist 1913-12-17 2003-07-30 Argentina: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps: American educator and ...
This is an incomplete list of botanists by their author abbreviation, which is designed for citation with the botanical names or works that they have published. This list follows that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992). [1]
Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was an American plant ecologist, active from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the five kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia , Plantae , Fungi , Protista , and Monera in 1969.