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In 1864 Mudd was appointed as the curator of Cambridge Botanic Garden with a salary of £100, and he undertook private coaching of students to supplement his low salary. There is a note that he improved the condition of the botanic garden substantially, but he ceased work on lichens. [1]
After retiring from her teaching career, Butler became the first curator of the Wild Botanic Garden (as it was then named) in 1911 with a salary of US $50 per month paid by the Minneapolis Park Board and Minneapolis Women's Club. [10]
The post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was established in 1841. [1] When the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew came into state ownership in 1841 Sir Willian Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) was appointed its first Director. [ 1 ]
Flecker Botanic Gardens is a heritage-listed botanic ... the reserve with a nominal annual salary of ... Vince Winkel as Curator of Parks, Gardens and Reserves, a ...
Peter Sherlock Wyse Jackson Jackson in 2011 Born (1955-06-07) 7 June 1955 (age 69) Kilkenny, Ireland Education BA and MA in botany PhD in plant taxonomy Alma mater Trinity College Dublin Title President of Missouri Botanical Garden Parents Robert Wyse Jackson (father) Lois Margery Wyse Jackson (mother) Scientific career Fields Plant conservation Ethnobotany Institutions Trinity College Dublin ...
The offer was $1,000/year salary, teaching duties limited to only botany, and being superintendent of Harvard's botanic garden. While the salary was low, the teaching limitation, rare for the time, allowed him plenty of time to do research and work in the botanic garden.
He trained in horticulture at the Kew botanical gardens and went to work in the Cape Town public gardens in 1895. In 1913, the botanical garden at Kirstenbosch was established and Mathews was appointed the curator under the directorship of Professor H.H.W. Pearson. Mathew cultivated and encouraged the use of numerous local plants including ...
In 1884 Prain was recommended to Sir George King (1840–1909), home on leave from his position as director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta and looking for a medical student with botanical interests to enter the Indian Medical Service. Prain duly went to India as a physician / botanist in the service, and in 1887 was appointed curator ...