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  Berger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maria Berger (born 1956), Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
David Mark Berger (1944–1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter and one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
Berger's disease, or IgA-Nephropathie (IgAN), a form of the Glomerulonephritis disease
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 Roseocactus
Berger's decision to create a new genus was strictly artificial, that is, he looked for differences between the two groups and ignored the similarities.
One of Berger's (1925) two main criteria for establishing Roseocactus was the location of flower origin, but evidently he did not dissect living material I studied living specimens of both groups while in flower and found little difference in the point of origin of the floral organs.
BERGER, A. Roseocactus, a new genus of Cactaceae.
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His works were written between 1907 and 1920 making him a contemporary of Alwin Berger and there was known to be communication between them albeit interrupted for some years by the First World War.
From his records it is possible to see that he travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean in 1907 and was in the region of Guatemala in 1915.
Berger included species from these parts of the world in his monograph but made little change to Trelease's classifications.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /agavepages/articles/caribbean.html   (463 words)

  
 Au Cactus Francophone : Fiche de : Bergerocactus Britton & Rose
Low, much branched cactus, with stout, cylindric, spreading or ascending branches; ribs many, low; areoles approximate; spines many, yellow, acicular; flower small, pale yellow, with short tube and widely expanding limb; scales on ovary and flower-tube small, bearing felt and spines in their axils; perianth-segments small, obtuse; fruit globose, densely spiny; seeds obovate.
The genus is monotypic; it is named in honor of Alwin Berger, author of an excellent discussion of the genus Cereus, who was long in charge of the garden of Sir Thomas Hanbury at La Mortola, Italy."
Bergerocactus: en l'honneur du botaniste allemand Alwin Berger (1871-1931).
www.cactuspro.com /encyclo/Bergerocactus   (371 words)

  
 :: Payne, Edgar Alwin ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the age of fourteen, Edgar Alwin Payne left his childhood home of Washburn, Missouri, to travel the United States and Mexico.
In 1915, Edgar Alwin Payne moved with his family to Santa Barbara, California where he began to focus more of his time on easel painting.
Edgar Alwin Payne traveled, painted, and exhibited in Europe between 1922 and 1924.
www.davidcookfineart.com /content.asp?contID=32   (429 words)

  
 Octopus agave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agave vilmoriniana, sometimes misspelled vilmoriana, and popularly known as Octopus agave, is a species of agave known for its untoothed arching and twisting leaves.
The species was named by Alwin Berger in 1913 in honor of Maurice de Vilmorin, based on specimens collected by Leon Diguet and grown at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Wild plants had been found in 1899 by J.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octopus_agave   (173 words)

  
 dr berger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David Mark Berger (1944-1972), American-born Israeli weightlifter and one of the 11 hostages murdered in the Munich massacre
Josef Berger, was an American journalist and Soviet spy.
Ludwig von Berger (1768-1813), Opfer der Napoleonischen Gewaltherrschaft
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Trelease was the director of the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis and was the first major taxonomist who travelled quite extensively in Mexico, the Caribbean and parts of South America and observed plants actually growing in the wild.
In Europe Alwin Berger organised the botany of agave in his great work 'Die Agaven' published in 1915.
Subsequently it was ignored in turn by all the famous taxonomists such as Salm Dyck, Jacobi, Baker and Berger.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /agavepages/articles/nomenclature.html   (2240 words)

  
 Gleason: Curriculum Vitae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Invisible friends and personified objects: Qualitative differences in relationships with imaginary companions Presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC.
Susman-Stillman, A., Alwin, J., Anderson, F., Gleason, T., Hyson, D., Musich, J., Niven, C., Sesma, A., Collins, W., Steffes, M. (April, 1997).
Berger, S., Shalowitz, M., Gleason, T., and Shannon, J. (May, 1992).
www.wellesley.edu /Psychology/Gleason/TGres.html   (786 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
Perez and Dabney are talented composers; their alliance here with producer/arranger/musician Alwin Erub is productive and promising.
Each guest is presented well but the most interesting of the performances is Maduli playing a slack-key bass solo not previously available on album (Only about half of Maduli's concert performance is heard here; he cut the rest to make more album time available for the other artists).
John Berger, who has covered the local entertainment scene since 1972, writes reviews of recordings produced by Hawaii artists.
starbulletin.com /97/05/28/features/records.html   (417 words)

  
 Teas Nursery - Tillandsia Air Plant Bromeliads
In contrast with the olive-green foliage, the effect is quite striking.
Named for cacti researcher, Alwin Berger, this tillandsia is the most prolific species.
The blooms are violet and white colored, resembling tiny iris flowers.
www.teasnursery.com /page11.html   (2102 words)

  
 Au Cactus Francophone : Fiche de : Notocactus scopa (Sprengel) A. Berger
Au Cactus Francophone : Fiche de : Notocactus scopa (Sprengel) A. Berger
Notocactus leninghausii (Haage ex Schumann) A. Berger 1929
Notocactus pampeanus (Spegazzini) A. Berger ex Backeberg and F.M. Knuth 1935
www.cactuspro.com /encyclo/Notocactus/scopa   (86 words)

  
 Archives2
Fifty nine species were included in Echeveria; some now reduced to synonymy or transferred to other genera.
Alwin Berger [1871-19311 and Karl von Poellnitz [1892-1959] also published monographs during the 1930s, both of which are now considered of less significance other than details of the first hybrids.
Eric Walther [1892-1959] was born in Dresden, emigrated to California when he was 17 years old and made horticulture his profession.
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 Biogeography of Agave deserti
Gentry spent over twenty-five years traveling the world studying and collecting desert plants, agave in particular.
Although he relied to some extent on the works of taxonomists William Trelease and Alwin Berger, Gentry introduced important new concepts in nomenclature which allowed him to revise quite extensively the available data on agaves (Kolendo, 1996).
As a result of his work Gentry has been regarded as the foremost expert in this particular field.
bss.sfsu.edu /geog/bholzman/courses/Fall00Projects/3Agavedeserti.html   (1931 words)

  
 Notocactus Information Exchange - A short history of the genus Notocactus
They used the name Malacocarpus, as a genus, to include a diverse range of plants (including plants we now know as members of Notocactus, Parodia, Frailea, Islaya and Neoporteria which were later moved by various people).
In 1929 Alwin Berger transferred some of the remaining plants to the newly raised Genus Notocactus.
Leaving the true Malacocarpus species where they were.
www.mfaint.demon.co.uk /cactus/noto/history.html   (519 words)

  
 DR. HENRY NEHRLING (1853 - 1929), By: Derek Butcher
In some of the parks of Buenos Aires all the branches of the huge Araucarias are decorated with these plants and when in flower at Christmas time convert these conifers into beautiful decorated Christmas trees.
Alwin Berger of the Hanbury Garden at La Mortola, Italy, has naturalized these two plants and the equally interesting T.
They grow on Lemon and other trees very successfully.
fcbs.org /articles/Henry_Nehrling.htm   (10446 words)

  
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About a dozen other collectors, such as Joseph Adolf Shafer and Daniel Trembly MacDougal, accompanied Rose and Britton in the West Indies and parts of South America.
Finally, in 1922, Rose visited his long-time correspondent, Alwin Berger, in his private herbarium in Mortola, Genoa, Italy, where he was received as "one of the most unselfish and kind-hearted men he (Berger) had ever met (Cowan & Stafleu, 1981 (p.
The meticulous diagnoses of "The Cactaceae" are illuminated by the delicate artwork of Miss Mary Eaton who, working for $300/year, adorned the pages with illustrations of plant life using a medium of vivid watercolor and precise line.
www.nybg.org /bsci/herb/cactaceae1.html   (6740 words)

  
 Albert Edward CLARK + Doris Pauline WAGNER Family Information - Tolliss and Berger Family History - PhpGedView   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Marriage 10 September 1927 (Age 27) Doris Pauline WAGNER - [View Family] Parish Church, Tottenham
Marriage 21 April 1894 (Age 26) Gustav Alwin WAGNER - [View Family] Register Office, Brighton
Death 9 October 1946 (Age 79) 15 Slades Gardens, Enfield, Middx
www.tolliss.com /family.php?famid=F5148   (134 words)

  
 Gustav Alwin WAGNER + Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) GUY Family Information - Tolliss and Berger Family History - PhpGedView   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gustav Alwin WAGNER + Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) GUY Family Information - Tolliss and Berger Family History - PhpGedView
Gustav Alwin WAGNER + Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) GUY
Marriage 21 April 1894 (Age 22) Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) GUY - [View Family] Register Office, Brighton
www.tolliss.com /family.php?famid=F2775   (318 words)

  
 Women and Cacti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
ELIZA BERGER, the wife of Alwin BERGER (1871-1931) (Bergerocactus, Coryphantha bergeriana, Opuntia bergeriana, Cereus bergerianus) - famous German expert of cacti and another succulents, author of the description of species, author monographie Die Entwicklungslinien der Kakteen
Lady KATHARINE HANBURY, the wife of Sir Thomas Hanbury (1832-1907) of La Mortola, Italy, the garden where Alwin Berger, the author, was curator
Lady KATHARINE SAUNDERS [born Wheelright] (1824-1901), English collector and botanical artist in South Africa, the wife of James Renault Saunders, mather of Charles James Renault Saunders (1857-1935) (Pachypodium saundersii) explorer and collector in Rhodesia & Mosambique, see also saundersiae
www.republika.pl /kwiki/wom.html   (4266 words)

  
 May 29 Birthdays in History
May 29, 1944 Helmut Berger, actor, Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray
May 29, 1938 Francis Thomas, Fay, Vincent, baseball commissioner
May 29, 1937 Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
www.brainyhistory.com /daysbirth/birth_may_29.html   (1560 words)

  
 Page B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Berberis: the Latinized form of the Arabic name for the fruit (ref. genus Berberis)
Bergerocactus: named after Alwin Berger (1871-1931), German botanist and succulent specialist (ref. genus Bergerocactus)
Bergia: named for Peter Jonas Bergius (1730-1790), Swedish botanist and student of Linnaeus (ref. genus Bergia)
www.calflora.net /botanicalnames/pageB.html   (14376 words)

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