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  James Edward Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir James Edward Smith (December 2, 1759 – March 17, 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.
Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant.
Smith was a friend of Sir Joseph Banks who was offered the entire collection of books, manuscripts and specimens of the Swedish natural historian and botanist Carolus Linnaeus, following the death of his son Carolus Linnaeus the Younger.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: James Smith
James Smith, was a recipient of the Victoria Cross.
James Francis Smith (1859 - 1928, was a U.S. administrator, governor of the Philippines 1906 - 1909.
James Francis Smith (1859 - 1928, was a U.S.
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James K. Sheets was reared and educated in Clinton County, this state, where he early became familiar with the conditions and influences of the pioneer era and where he continued to be identified actively with agricultural pursuits until the call of higher duty came with the outbreak of the Civil war.
Smith was born in Jasper County, Indiana, October 24, 1869, and is a son of Erastus and Sarah (Layman) Smith.
Smith, who assisted in carrying the captain to the rear in an engagement wherein the captain was seriously wounded, and at his death wrote a beautiful tribute to the memory of Mr.
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 OSBORN 19TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS
Osborn Shelves d 4 Markland, James Heywood, 1788-1864 [Notes on Jeremiah Markland (1693-1776)]: autograph MS notes in an interleaved copy of the life of Jeremiah Markland, extracted from the Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer by John Nichols (1745-1826) 1810 and later 22 x 13 cm.
Concerns the effects of the death of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) on the Linnean Society, etc. d 148/3/15 Davy, Martin, 1763-1839 ALS to William Fitt Drake 1828 Mar 21, Caius Lodge 2 p.; 22 x 18 cm.
The first letter concerns the death of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), his current work, friends, etc.; the second letter is included in a letter of Francis Boott.
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 Linnean.org: Sir J. E. Smith
James Edward Smith (1759-1828) scientist, collector and contemporary of Joseph Banks, Stamford Raffles and other major 18th century figures, played a central role in the early history of the Linnean Society of London, becoming first President in 1788.
While Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is considered, by many, to be the spiritual founder of the Linnean Society of London, Smith was amongst those instrumental in its practical establishment as a meeting place for the cultivation of the science of natural history, as the Society’s first charter declared its intentions.
James Edward Smith was born in 1759 in Norwich, the eldest son of James Smith, a wealthy wool merchant, and showed an early interest in flowers.
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 Linnean Society of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linnaeus' botanical and zoological collections were purchased in 1783 by Sir James Edward Smith, the first President of the society, and are now held in London by the society.
Sir JE Smith's own plant collection is also held by the Society.
It has been databased by the Smith Herbarium Project at the National Museums Liverpool.
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 James Edward Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sir James Edward Smith (December 2 1759 - March 17 1828) was an English botanist.
Smith was born in Norwich in 1759 the son of a wool merchant.
The Collection arrived in London in and in 1786 Smith was elected Fellow the Royal Society.
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 Duchy of Lancaster
The Duchy of Lancaster was created for John of Gaunt, a younger son of King Edward III of England,when John married the Lancaster heiress.
It is the private property of the crown, and has been since 1399, when the Dukedom of Lancaster, held by Henry of Bolingbroke, merged with the crown on his accession to the throne.
The monarch derives the Privy Purse from the revenues of the Duchy.The lands of the Duchy are not to be confused with the Crown Estate,whose revenues have been handed to the Treasury in exchange for receiving a yearly civil list payment since the eighteenth century.
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 Geometry.Net - Nobel: Appleton Sir Edward Victor
edward victor appleton was born in Bradford, England, on 6th In 1956 sir edward gavethe Reith Lectures of the In 1915 appleton married Jessie, daughter of the
Edward Victor Appleton was born in Bradford, England, on 6th September, 1892, the son of Peter and Mary Appleton.
Sir Edward Appleton was born in Bradford in 1892.
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 Sowerby, James (1757-1822)
James Sowerby was born on March 21, 1757, in the City of London; he died at No. 2-3 Mead Place, Lambeth, on October 25, 1822.
James hand-coloured many of the plates for this publication as well as doing the original copper engravings for a number of them.
His two eldest sons, James De Carle (1787-1871) and George Brettingham (1788-1854), were also artists and naturalists and did substantial original work; and they completed much that was begun by their father.
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 Yorkshire Genealogy Documents
Smith spent a fortnight with him at his new home in 1802.
The two botanists were supporters of opposing views of classification, Salisbury using the natural, Smith the Linnaean system.The latter seems to have resented his friend's outspoken criticism.
Salisbury's marriage proved unhappy, owing partly to disputes with his wifes relatives as to her dowry; and in order to deprive his wife of property that he claimed to have settled on her he declared himself a bankrupt, and had recourse to other legal shifts of doubtful honesty.
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 Sir John Smith group Island at the Whitsundays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Sir James Smith Group was named in July 1820 by Lieutenant P. King, RN, during his second voyage through the area in HMS Mermaid.
The naming is undoubtedly after Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) prominent botanist and president of the Linnéan Society in London in those years.
King named the group 'Sir James Smith's Group' but by 1847 charts had dropped the possessive 's' (King, P. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia.
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 §32. Botanic Gardens. VIII. The Literature of Science. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In fact, this lady may be regarded as the foundress of Kew, which, since her time, has played the leading part in the dissemination of botanical knowledge throughout the world.
In the latter half of the eighteenth century, the Linnaean system of classification had been generally adopted in Great Britain, and, in the year 1783, Sir James Edward Smith secured, from the mother of Linnaeus, for £1050, the entire Linnaean collections.
These did not, however, reach these islands without an effort on the part of the Swedish government to retrieve them.
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 The Jamestown Experience: Maps
John Smith's "Virginia" was originally published separately in London in 1612 and then in the 1612 Oxford publication of John Smith's A Map of Virginia: With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion.
It appears on a tracing of a 1608 John Smith map of Virginia sent to Philip III of Spain by his ambassador Pedro de Zuniga.
Scholars believe that the “x” marks the church and the “flag” area was not a flag at all but a plan of an enclosed settlement or garden to the north.
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 Vol 19. No. 38 - Index - Quarterly Review Archive - Scholarly Resources, Romantic Circles
Sir James Smith, Considerations Respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its Botanical Professorship; Monk, A Vindication of the University of Cambridge from the Reflections of Sir James Edward Smith, President of the Linnaean Society, andc, 434-46.
The article was the occasion for Sir James Edward Smith, A Defence of the Church and Universities of England, against such injurious advocates as Professor Monk, and The Quarterly Review for January, 1819 (1819).
Wilson, Letter from Sir Robert Wilson to his Constituents in Refutation of a Charge for dispatching a false Report of a Victory to the Commander in Chief of the British Army in the Peninsula in the Year 1809; and which Charge is advanced in the Quarterly Review published in September, 1818, 478-92.
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 Cooke in Va
Witness James M'Cooke of our sd Court this 19th Day of Agt in seventh year of the Commonwealth James McCorkle ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of St. Peter's Parish, pages 61-80, New Kent Co. VA William Cook an orphan boy belonging to Mr Meux died Novr 14th, 1722.
John Herbert, late merchant on James River, who formerly married Miss Frances Anderson of said place, and died in the year 1704 or 1705, and what arms he bore is said to be ent on his tombstone.
This patent was renewed by Sir John Harvey in the names of Robert Brassuer and Peter Rey.
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 SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846) - Online Information article about SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c.
It was here that GEORGE SMITH (2) (1824—1901), the most famous member of the firm, was born on the 19th of, See also:
See the memoir (1901) of George Smith (2) prefixed to vol.
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 thePeerage.com - Lieutenant James Esten and others
She was the daughter of Sir James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton and Elizabeth Gunning, Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon.
She was the daughter of Sir William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Mary Louise Elizabeth Montagu.
She married James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose, son of Douglas Beresford Malise Ronald Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose and Violet Hermione Graham, on 14 June 1906.
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 ipedia.com: James Edward Smith Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist.
Smith was a friend of Sir Joseph Banks who was offered the entire collection of books, manuscripts and specimens of the Swedish natural historian and botanist Carolus Linnaeus.
Banks declined the purchase but Smith bought the Linnean Collection for the bargain price of £1000.
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 James Edward Smith - new and used books
Smith, (James Edward) - AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMATICAL BOTANY.
Smith Sir James Edward - The ENGLISH FLORA.
Smith, James Edward - An Introduction to the Study of Botany
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 The Pioneers : An Anthology : Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith (1897-1935)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith was born in Brisbane in 1897, the youngest of seven children.
Smith could meet Wilkins' price of £3,000 for the airframe, but he was left with nothing for engines or instruments until a Melbourne businessman, Sidney Myer, came to his aid.
Smith and Ulm were introduced to Harry Lyon, an American recommended as a good navigator, and he in turn introduced his fellow countryman, James Warner, as flight engineer.
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 Sir James Edward Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This Smith seems to have been the big man in British
Sir James Edward Smith (1824 - 1828) The English Flora 1st ed.
Sir James Edward Smith (1828 - 1836) The English Flora: volumes 1-4
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 Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
James Cook was born on October 27, 1728 in the small Yorkshire village of Marston.
In the autumn of 1791 he went on a tour in the extreme north of Scotland where he claimed to find signs of vast mineral wealth, and it was supposedly in order to support his reputation as a mineralogist that he brought out this translation.
President Polk's official announcement, before the 30th Congress, of the discovery of gold in California; James Buchanan; Secretary of State, spoke before the same body and praises the present wealth of America and the newly discovered gold and quicksilver deposits of California, the newly acquired territories and the need for a stable government in California.
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 MUTIS, JOSé CELESTINO. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Some of his voluminous correspondence with Linnaeus has been published in A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus, comp.
by Sir James Edward Smith (2 vol., 1821).
Mutis was chiefly responsible for the creation of the Bogotá Observatory and gathered about him a group of scholars who made the university a renowned center of research.
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 Antique print: picture of Siberian Motherwort - Leonurus sibiricus - East Indiea, China, Siberia
Sir James Edward Smith was president of the Linnean Society in London.
In 1806 he published "Smith's Exotic Botany" which featured beautiful hand colored engravings of exotic plants.
The engravings were based on drawings by James Sowerby.
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 Manuscripts Guide -- C
Edward Uhler Condon was a theoretical physicist at Princeton University and Westinghouse Laboratories who later served as director of the National Bureau of Standards (1945-1951), and as the director of research and development (1951-1954) and consulting physicist (1954-1974) at Corning Glass Works.
Songs transcribed by Cornplanter from manuscripts of his father Edward Cornplanter and of George Pierce, and also from memory, with 4 letters between Jesse Cornplanter and William N. Fenton.
James M. Crawford was a linguist who mainly studied Native American languages, including Cocopa, Yuchi, and Mobilian trade language.
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 Sir James Edward Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Smith".
It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Edward".
Nebraska High School Basketball - St. Edward trounces Rising City
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 Contents of the Linley Wood Library As recorded around 1919.
Smith, Adam.Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Published in1885.Earliest known publication date1776.
Smith, Arthur Henderson.Village Life in China: a study in sociology.Published in?.Earliest known publication date1899.
Smith, Sir James Edward.Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany.Published in1809.Earliest known publication date1807.
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