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  Botany Photo of the Day
The final photograph in the series on African plants is courtesy (once again) of Eric in SF@Flickr (and PlantWorld), posted via the BPotD Flickr Group Pool (original).
Continuing with the series on African plants, baobab is an iconic species of this continent.
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research is a department of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org /potd   (1596 words)

  
  Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A series is a related set of things that occur one after the other (in a succession) or are otherwise connected one after the other (in a sequence).
3 in a series = Trilogy or Triptych
On U.S. currency, series refers to the year appearing on the front of a bill, indicating when the bill's design was adopted.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Series   (301 words)

  
 UBC Archives - Department of Botany - Description
The Department of Botany was established at UBC in the early 1920s after the Department of Biology split into the Departments of Botany and Zoology.
Series consists of materials pertaining to the administration of the Department of Botany.
Series consists of correspondence pertaining to the administration of the Department of Botany.
www.library.ubc.ca /archives/u_arch/botany.html   (411 words)

  
 Department of Botany Records, 1892-1966 Finding Aid
Botany was offered at Smith College from the beginning of the institution in 1875, but the science was not established as a separate and independent department until 1890.
The campus itself was used by the Botany Department as a laboratory and classroom for the study of both woody and exotic plants as the landscape plan developed.
Now as throughout the history of Botany at Smith, students study plant theory in class, and then are able to apply and practice this knowledge in the Lyman Plant House.
asteria.fivecolleges.edu /findaids/smitharchives/manosca82.html   (929 words)

  
 Botany, Roses, Orchids, Wildflowers, Botanical Rare & Out of Print Books
EATON, Amos; A Manual of Botany for the Northern and Middle States of America; containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Indigenous Plants and Common Cultivated Exotics Growing North of Virginia, to which is prefixed a Grammar and Vocabulary.
An important study of botany of this part of Australia which includes biographies of previous botanists and artists, a detailed description of each area, excellent color photos of plants and ecologies with good historical illustrations comparing the changes.
The results of this exploration and scientific expedition, sponsored by the government of Canada and under the command of Vilhjalmur Steffansson, was published in 14 volumes in 77 numbers, over 25 year period, covering various aspects of natural history, geology, tides, native peoples, etc, each part produced by an expert in their field.
www.horizonbook.com /botany.html   (14555 words)

  
 Untitled Document
This series includes positions that involve research or other professional and scientific work pertaining to one or more of such vital functions as plant growth, nutrition, respiration, and reproduction that are essential to the life of the plant or its use.
This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other professional and scientific work in the behavior, breeding, or culture (or any combination thereof) of fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental trees and shrubs, and in allied problems of their production, storage, and handling.
This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional research in the principles and mechanisms of transmission of characters by inheritance, including in some instances the application of these principles in planning breeding programs.
www.usace.army.mil /employment/careers/occ-0400g.htm   (2026 words)

  
 Museums for the People by Alfred Russel Wallace
--The series of specimens to illustrate the science of botany in a popular museum may be of two kinds: such as show the main facts of plant-structure and classification; and others to teach something of the variety, the distribution, and the uses of plants.
A corresponding series of their crania should also be shown; and such portions of the skeleton as should exhibit the differences that exist between certain races, as well as those between the lower races and those animals which most nearly approach them.
The arts of mankind should be illustrated by a series, commencing with the rudest flint implements, and passing through those of polished stone, bronze, and iron--showing in every case, along with the works of prehistoric man, those corresponding to them formed by existing savage races.
www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S143.htm   (3945 words)

  
 Plant Press Vol. 3, No. 1/Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
The Botany Branch Library is one link in an extensive Natural History Museum network of departmental libraries of varying sizes, such as the Anthropology, Birds, Entomology, Fishes, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammals, Minerals, Mollusks, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Reptile libraries, as well as the Natural History branch (for general science and ecology).
In Madrid she gave a keynote lecture "Examining the phylogeny and evolution of lichen symbionts" at the XIII Symposium of Cryptogamic Botany, a biannual meeting of lichenologists, mycologists, bryologists, pteridologists and phycologists from Spain and Portugal.
The series was discontinued after volume 38, 1974, and has been revived with volume 39, as a venue for publishing longer taxonomic papers, checklists, floras, and monographs, produced by the staff and associates at the U.S. National Herbarium.
www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/plantpress/vol3no1.htm   (7055 words)

  
 botany_sc.html
For example, detailed accounts of the 1953-55 collaboration between the Botany and Zoology departments, and of their 1961 merger, is one area requiring further investigation.
The records of the Botany Department were accessioned by the Oberlin College Archives in three different installments; 1983/34, 1990/70, and 1991/31.
Items include a listing of Botany majors (1888-1957), letters of recommendation for Botany students (1930-1950), notes on former students (1940-1960), and the syllabus from a 1971 botany course.
www.oberlin.edu /archive/WWW_files/botany_sc.html   (871 words)

  
 Oberlin College Archives | Holdings | Finding Guides | RG # - Name (bdate-ddate) | Scope and Content
Series VIII contains materials concerning the Oberlin College Herbarium and is divided into three subseries.
Items include a listing of Botany majors (1888-1957), letters of recommendation for Botany students (1930-1950), notes on former students (1940-1960), the syllabus from a 1971 botany course, notes on the Arboretum, and reports by Frederick Grover on Lincoln House (1913), the Botany Department (1900), and the Herbarium (1957).
This series consists of 5x7 glass plate negatives of various plants, miscellaneous glass plate negatives and safety negatives of plants from the corresponding dates of 1925, 1926, 1932, 1935, and n.d.
www.oberlin.edu /archive/holdings/finding/RG9/SG15/scope.html   (1092 words)

  
 Program gives global perspective to botany   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Through Botany in Action, a program developed by the Garden Club of Allegheny County in 1992 and turned over to Phipps in 2000, we carry out a commitment to worldwide botanical research, habitat conservation and environmental education.
Botany in Action students also serve as role models, encouraging youth involvement in botany and research.
Botany in Action is supported by the Garden Club of Allegheny County, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and many private individuals in our region.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06322/739303-47.stm   (657 words)

  
 University of Florida Department of Botany
The Department of Botany is a member of both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Florida.
The department enrolls approximately 30 undergraduate students in botany and over 100 in Integrative Biology.
Graduate studies in Botany center around three areas: ecology, molecular biology/genetics/biochemistry, and systematics.
www.botany.ufl.edu   (189 words)

  
 MBG: Research: Ecuador: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Journal of Botany, being a second series of the Botanical Miscellany 1: 327–354.
Department of Systematic Botany, University of Göteborg and Section for Botany, Riksmuseeum, Stockholm.
Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 65: 1–122, figs.
www.mobot.org /MOBOT/research/ecuador/literature_cited_H-M.shtml   (5532 words)

  
 Series (botany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In botany, a series is a subdivision of a genus.
It is typically used to help organize very large genera, which may have hundreds of species.
The term "series" is also used (in seed marketing) for groupings of cultivars, but this term has no formal status in the ICNCP.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Series_(botany)   (126 words)

  
 intro.htm
The Flora of Peru Series was initiated in Fieldiana in 1936 and has resulted in published treatments for over 75% of the Peruvian flora in volumes numbering nearly 9,500 pages.
The exceptions to this in the Spermatophytes are the families Orchidaceae in Volumes 30 and 33 and the Asteraceae, published by tribe in the New Series.
Francis Macbride & the Flora of Peru Series
www.sacha.org /pubs/intro.html   (460 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
OR Combination of education and experience--courses equivalent to a major in botany or basic plant science that included at least 24 semester hours in botany, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
For positions dealing with the study of fungi, or with basic mycological relationships, the course work in botany must have included at least 6 semester hours in mycology.
Evaluation of Education: Courses in basic botany, plant anatomy or morphology, cytology, histology, genetics, taxonomy or systematics, algology, mycology, ethnobotany, and those dealing with specific problems of a botanical nature or with specific groups of plants are qualifying.
www.awss.org /career/announcements/gov/docs/Qual_Stds_Botany.doc   (324 words)

  
 Digital Publishing Programs at the University of California Press
UC Publications in Zoology are now available online free of charge.
Constancea: University of California Electronic Publications in Botany, the series focuses on publishing works that are image-rich, that cite numerous specimens and geographic records, that are ongoing projects, that are by their nature hypertextual, or that are particularly timely.
The Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA) is an initiative of International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the University of California Press, the
www.ucpress.edu /digpub   (401 words)

  
 Checklist of the Plants of Myanmar, Botany, Smithsonian Institution
The Botanical Exploration in Myanmar project is a collaborative effort involving participants from the U.S. National Herbarium, the Forest Department of Myanmar, and the University of Yangon.
In April 2003 we published a checklist of the gymnosperms and angiosperms of Myanmar in the Smithsonian Contributions to Botany series.
The preface, introduction, and images from the published book are also available here as well as additional information about the plants of Myanmar and their geographical distribution.
persoon.si.edu /myanmar   (157 words)

  
 The Corallinales (Rhodophyta: A Catalogue of References - Version 2, June 1998: Part 5, J-L, compiled by Wm J. ...
Seaweeds of the western coast of tropical Africa and adjacent islands: a critical assessment.
The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 43: 137-231, pl. 4-10.
Note: article contains a historical sketch of botany at Vire for the preceeding 30 years and a list of the contents of Lenormand's herbarium.
www.botany.uwc.ac.za /clines/bibliog/j_to_l.htm   (10267 words)

  
 New Serials   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The series was discontinued after volume 38, 1974, and has been revived with volume 39, 2000.
This is all part of a bigger, ongoing effort to digitize all SI publication series.
Even though only the Botany series is listed at this point, authors and titles are searchable for all SI series.
www.inhs.uiuc.edu /~kenr/ASPT/serials.html   (309 words)

  
 Grady L. Webster Award   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first award will be made at the Botany 2008 meetings and will be selected from volumes 31 and 32 of Systematic Botany and those monographs appearing during 2006-2007.
The BSA component of the award, the Grady L. Webster Structural Botany Publication Award, will be given in 2007, and henceforth every second year by the BSA.
The award recognizes the most outstanding paper published in the American Journal of Botany in the field of structural and developmental botany (i.e., anatomy and morphology) over a two-year period, or a book, monograph and miscellaneous publication of significant importance in the same field.
www.aspt.net /webster_award.htm   (379 words)

  
 series - OneLook Dictionary Search
Series, series : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
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Words similar to series: serial, sequence, sequences, serial publication, train, world series, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=series&ls=a   (483 words)

  
 ArtPlantae: Classes
The objective of these classes is to provide learning experiences that are fun and informative for all participants, regardless of skill level.
First-time artists will acquire an understanding of botany and will be introduced to the world of botanical art & illustration in this course.
Botany Notebook Series™ - These brochures are designed to be portable bits of information that artists and plant enthusiasts can tuck into a sketchbook or post easily onto a bulletin board in their studio or library.
www.artplantae.com /classes_ap.htm   (458 words)

  
 Christmas Botany Series- Rosemary, part II
Christmas Botany Series- Rosemary, part II Suite 101
Christmas Botany Series- Rosemary, part II Wesley Ford
In the first part of this article we learned of some of the extensive lore associated with rosemary.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mid_atlantic_plantsman/87555   (504 words)

  
 Ethnobotany of the Americas-Science Tracer Bullet>
Not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography, this guide is designed --as the name of the series implies-- to put the reader "on target."
New directions in the study of plants and people: research contributions from the Institute of Economic Botany.
(The Civilization of the American Indian series, 95) Expanded version of the author's thesis, University of Chicago.
www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/ethnobotanytb.html   (2127 words)

  
 Nepenthes Literature Cited entry from Danser's Monograph
In A. ELMER, Leaflets of Philippine Botany, vol.
FORBES, F. B., and HEMSLEY, W. B., An enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Formosa, Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and synonymy.
The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series, botany, IV (1894-1896), p.
www.omnisterra.com /botany/cp/pictures/nepenthe/dansermg/dans64.htm   (1993 words)

  
 Smithsonian Contributions to Botany
This series reports on the scientific, technical, and historical research conducted by Smithsonian staff and their professional colleagues, as well as on the collections of the various Smithsonian museums.
The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
“It is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches of knowledge not strictly professional.”
www.sil.si.edu /smithsoniancontributions/Botany/index.cfm   (128 words)

  
 C.V.
Responsible for conducting laboratories for upper level botany courses.
Conducted dissertation research aimed at determining the mechanisms responsible for the assent of sap in plants.
Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
www.botany.hawaii.edu /gradstud/melcher/CV.htm   (562 words)

  
 ELK Lighting Bunch O' Roses Series Floral Lighting Collection Light Fixtures
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 Cambridge Journals Online - Bulletin of The Natural History Museum. Botany Series
The Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, formerly the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) - instituted in 1949, is issued in four scientific series Botany, Entomology, Geology (incorporating Mineralogy) and Zoology.
Papers in the Bulletins are primarily the results of research carried out on the unique and ever-growing collections of the Museum, both by its scientific staff and by specialists from elsewhere who make use of the Museum's resources.
The Botany Series is edited in the Museum's Department of Botany.
journals.cambridge.org /jid_BBO   (249 words)

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