scholarly journals Noted colonial German scientists and their contexts

2015 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Gabrielle L. McMullen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
National Herbarium ◽  
Annual Dinner ◽  
Pharmaceutical Society ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

German scientists made substantial and notable contributions to colonial Victoria. They were involved in the establishment and/or development of some of the major public institutions, e.g. the Royal Society of Victoria, National Herbarium, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Museum Victoria, the Flagstaff Observatory for Geophysics, Magnetism and Nautical Science, the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria and the Victorian College of Pharmacy. Further, they played a leading role not only in scientific and technological developments but also in exploration – Home has identified ‘science as a German export to nineteenth century Australia’ (Home 1995: 1). Significantly, an account of the 1860 annual dinner of the Royal Society of Victoria related the following comment from Dr John Macadam MP, Victorian Government Analytical Chemist: ‘Where would science be in Victoria without the Germans?’ (Melbourner Deutsche Zeitung 1860: 192). This paper considers key German scientists working in mid-nineteenth century Victoria and the nature and significance of their contributions to the colony.

Faith and Thought

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Mathieson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Conservative Christianity ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Teleological Argument ◽  
William Paley ◽  
Eternal Punishment ◽  
Evangelical Theology

This chapter examines Stokes as an outspoken scientist of faith. It uses Stokes to examine the intellectual threats to conservative Christianity in the second half of the nineteenth century, and highlights his leading role among Victorian Britain’s religious scientists, through bodies such as the Royal Society and the Victoria Institute. It also explains how Stokes’s upbringing and education formed the basis for his own evangelical theology, and highlights his two most significant contributions to that field. First, it explores Stokes’s opposition to the doctrine of eternal punishment, and his promotion of conditional immortality as an alternative. Second, it highlights how Stokes continued to advocate the natural theology and teleological argument of William Paley a century after they were first proposed, as a method of harmonizing faith and scientific practice.

Exchange of useful plants between Brazil and England in the second half of the nineteenth century: Glaziou and the botanists of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Kew Bulletin ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Reis de Brito ◽  
Eimear Nic Lughadha ◽  
Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte ◽  
Luci de Senna-Valle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Useful Plants ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

The Establishment of Calcutta Botanic Garden: Plant Transfer, Science and the East India Company, 1786–1806

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian P. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Scientific Institution ◽  
Plant Transfer ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Garden Plant

AbstractCalcutta Botanic Garden occupies a prime riverside site three miles downstream from the centre of Calcutta. It is most famous as the home of the world's largest tree, a vast spreading banyan. Its grand avenues, named after its founders and the fathers of Indian botany, convey something of its former glory. In the nineteenth century it was the greatest of all the colonial botanic gardens and an important scientific institution; two of its superintendents were knighted and one went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the very centre of the imperial botanical network. The Garden is of considerable importance as it was one of the earliest institutions in India based on western science. This survey will look at the reasons for its foundation, and how it successfully established itself in its first twenty years.

scholarly journals John Christopher Willis 1868-1958

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 353-359
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Botany Department ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
University College ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

John Christopher Willis was bom at Birkenhead on 20 February 1868. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Cambridge and for a time was an assistant in the Botany Department at Glasgow. In 1896, he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon, and held the post for 15 years. From 1912 to 1915 he was director of the Botanic Garden at Rio de Janeiro and after his retirement he worked at Cambridge and later went to live at Les Terrages, Avenue des Alpes, Montreux, Switzerland, where he died on 21 March 1958. He married Minnie, daughter of T. Baldwin, in 1897, and she died in 1931. There were three daughters of the marriage. He was an M.A. and Sc.D.(Cantab.), and was given an honorary S.D. by Harvard. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1897 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919. The Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya , was a periodical founded by him, volume 1 part 1 appearing on 27 June 1901. Willis contributed very largely to the earlier volumes and edited volumes 1 to 4 inclusive, to 1910, and volume 5, parts 1 to 3, to December 1911. He was also editor of The Empire Cotton Growing Review from vol. 1, 1924 to vol. 16, 1939.

scholarly journals A synoptical account of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
M. Oliur Rahman ◽  
Md. Abul Hassan ◽  
Md. Manzurul Kadir Mia ◽  
Ahmed Mozaharul Huq
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
National Herbarium ◽  
Diagnostic Characteristics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Plant Taxon ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

Taxonomy, updated nomenclature and occurrence of the species belonging to the family Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh have been presented. Detailed herbarium study at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E), British Museum (BM), Bangladesh National Herbarium (DACB) and Dhaka University Salar Khan Herbarium (DUSH) has revealed the occurrence of 32 species under 15 genera of the Sterculiaceae in Bangladesh. The correct name, important synonym(s), salient diagnostic characteristics, specimens examined and distributional notes have been provided for each species. Dichotomous bracketed keys have also been presented for identification of genera and species.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v19i1.10943Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 19(1): 63-78, 2012 (June)

scholarly journals Francis Wall Oliver 1864-1951

1952 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 229-240 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
University College ◽  
Flora Of Tropical Africa ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Main Entrance

It was to the Herbarium House on the left-hand side of the main entrance to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, that Daniel Oliver came to reside when he was appointed Keeper of the Herbarium in 1864. On 10 May of that year Francis Wall Oliver had been born at Richmond. His mother was Hanna Wall of Sheffield, his father, a member of the Society of Friends, was a distinguished taxonomist, responsible for the first three volumes of the Flora of Tropical Africa, who was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1863 and he preceded Francis as Quain Professor of Botany at University College, a position which Daniel occupied from 1861-1888 till he was succeeded by his son Francis as Lecturer at the early age of twenty-four.

Summary of the Discussion

1969 ◽  
Vol 255 (800) ◽  
pp. 621-625
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
The Government ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Great Appreciation

Before I attempt a summary and lose myself in the maze of thought that has grown up in the last three days I want to make clear five points. First, I repeat our gratitude to the Royal Society for this opportunity to re-assemble after having entrusted us with so great an expedition. The consequences are, I fear, inevitable. The Society has opened the gate into a new field. We have explored and we must go back. Then, I would like to thank wives for having allowed us this freedom, in the hope that it will be permitted again. Thirdly, I would like the story of the expedition, the results of this discussion, and our proposals to be conveyed to the Government of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and to the Solomon Islanders. Next, on behalf of the botanists, I would like to convey through Mr Brenan our great appreciation of the work of his staff in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the identification of our collections in time for this meeting. Lastly, I speak for the whole expedition when I recall how much we owed during the preliminary organization in 1964 and in the field-administration in 1965, and how much we owe now for the preparation for this meeting to George Hemmen... [further remarks lost in applause].

Conversaziones 1976

1977 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-253
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Orchid Species ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

CONVERSAZIONES were held this year on 6 May and 24 June. At the first conversazione twenty-nine exhibits and one film was shown. Six orchids collected on the Royal Society Expeditions to the Solomons and the New Hebrides were chosen for exhibition by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Paintings, colour prints, living plants and maps were used to illustrate problems of identity, synonymy and distribution. Colour slides of twelve additional orchid species were also shown.

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