Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Rae FRS FRGS (Inuktitut: ᐊᒡᓘᑲ, ; 30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage . Rae explored the Gulf of Boothia , northwest of the Hudson Bay , from 1846 to 1847, and the Arctic coast near Victoria Island from 1848 to 1851.
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]
John Rae (1845 – 1915) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. The long-time editor of The Contemporary Review, and contributor to The British Quarterly Review, he became famous for his 1895 biography of Adam Smith, Life of Adam Smith, which replaced the Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith of 1811, by Dugald Stewart, as the standard Smith reference.
John Rae (born 1966), jazz musician and composer; ... Victorian botanist and medical herbalist; John Napier (1550–1617), mathematician and inventor of logarithms;
Andrew John Scott (botanist) Frederick John Freshwater Shaw; Shirley Sherwood; Humphry Sibthorp (botanist) Adrian Slack; Alison Gail Smith; Harry Smith (botanist) James De Carle Sowerby; Frederick Archibald Sowter; Mark Spencer (botanist) Brian Spooner (mycologist) Kenneth Robert Sporne; Janet Sprent; Clive A. Stace; Lady Beatrix Stanley ...
Cannon – John Francis Michael Cannon (1930–2008) Cantley – Nathaniel Cantley (died 1888) Cantor – Theodore Cantor (1809–1854) C.A.Paris – Catherine A. Paris (born 1962) Capit. – Louis Capitaine (1883–1923) Capuron – René Paul Raymond Capuron (1921–1971) Carbonó – Eduino Carbonó de la Hoz (born 1950)