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Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, secondary title-page by David Loggan, 1665. Rea wrote Flora, seu de Florum Cultura, or a complete Florilege, with a second title-page as Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, in III. Books, London, 1665. A second impression, appeared in 1676 and was reissued, with a new title-page, in 1702. [1]
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.
John Ray by Roubiliac, British Museum. John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family ...
John Parish Robertson (1792–1843), Scottish merchant and author; John Rae Robertson (1893–1956), Rae Robertson, of the classical musical duo Bartlett and Robertson; John Robertson (American football) (born 1993), American football quarterback; John Robertson (Australian footballer) (1940–2001), Australian footballer, who played for Hawthorn
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]
The Honeyman family later moved to the mainland, and the house was occupied by their agent, John Rae. The hall was the birthplace of Rae's son, the Arctic explorer John Rae, in 1813. Sir Walter Scott visited Rae's parents at the house in August 1814, while touring the north of Scotland. [1] Currently derelict, the house became a listed building ...
He traveled with John Rae on an unsuccessful search for Franklin in 1848–49, describing it in An Arctic Searching Expedition (1851). He retired to the Lake District in 1855. While there, Richardson (helped by his daughter Beatrice) send words for inclusion in the OED .
The Canadian Economics Association awards the John Rae prize every two years since 1994 to the Canadian economist with "the best research record for the past five years." ." The prize has been named after John Rae (1796–1872) who did most of his work in Canada and was "a genuine precursor of endogenous growth theo