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    Archibald Menzies (/ˈmɪŋɪs/ MING-iss; 15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist. He spent many years at sea, serving...
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  • Alex Menzies, Scottish football player Alex Menzies (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1964), Scottish international football player Archibald Menzies (1754–1842)...
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    1792 by Archibald Menzies, a member of the Vancouver Expedition. Vancouver's two ships used Birch Bay as an anchorage for several days. Menzies noted a...
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    Australia. In King George Sound, the Discovery's naturalist and surgeon Archibald Menzies collected various plant species including Banksia grandis. This was...
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    research of the expedition's politically well-connected botanist, Archibald Menzies. A change to a more conciliatory British policy toward Spain after...
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    crater, at 13,200 feet (4,000 m). It was sometimes called Menzies Trail after Archibald Menzies who was the first recorded outsider to climb the mountain...
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    expedition led by Archibald Menzies, a botanist and naturalist on the 1793 Vancouver Expedition. In February of that year Menzies, two ships' mates,...
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    America's Gift to Salad". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2013-04-06. Archibald Menzies (1923). Menzies' Journal of Vancouver's Voyage, April to October, 1792 [extract]...
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    England. The accomplished and politically well-connected naturalist Archibald Menzies complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a...
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    specific epithet menziesii is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. Menzies first documented the tree on Vancouver...
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    while the Franciscans did the same in San Diego, California, in 1769. Archibald Menzies, the botanist on the Vancouver Expedition, collected orange seeds...
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  • her chief mate (and later commander) James Johnstone and surgeon Archibald Menzies. They voyaged to China where Towereroo was put on Prince of Wales...
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  • Tahiti and Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands, he accompanied Archibald Menzies in botanical explorations. Most of the small-boat work in exploring...
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    the seeds as real food and in the past ate it only in emergencies. Archibald Menzies was the botanist with the Vancouver Expedition that arrived in Santa...
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    Kate (née Sampson) and James Menzies; he had two elder brothers, an elder sister Isabel, and a younger brother. Menzies was the first Australian prime...
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    Names. Naish, John (1996). The Interwoven Lives of George Vancouver, Archibald Menzies, Joseph Whidbey and Peter Puget: The Vancouver Voyage of 1791–1795...
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  • François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, Canadian rebel (b. 1803) 1842 – Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (b. 1754) 1844 – Henry Addington, 1st...
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    scientists Archibald Menzies in 1794, James Macrae in 1825, and David Douglas in 1834. Just reaching the summits proved daunting: Menzies took three attempts...
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    Its species name was given it in honor of the Scottish naturalist Archibald Menzies, who noted it during George Vancouver's voyage of exploration. Madrones...
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    the islands of Hawaiʻi. It is named after the Scottish naturalist Archibald Menzies. It is also known as the male tree fern, and Cibotium glaucum is deemed...
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  • on the beach. The Akriggs say that this bay was likely named after Archibald Menzies, a botanist and surgeon who served aboard HMS Discovery and HMS Prince...
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    and information. Vancouver provided the services of his surgeon, Archibald Menzies, to help Quadra with increasingly serious headaches. During their...
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    16th South America Jorge de Menezes Portuguese 16th Papua New Guinea Archibald Menzies Scottish 18th/19th Pacific Ocean, circumnavigation Alexander von Middendorff...
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  • 2013-14 in the "British Library Crime Classics" series. Hay married Archibald Menzies Fitzrandolph, the brother of her collaborator in the rural industries...
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    when the Scottish surgeon and naturalist Archibald Menzies encountered it on the Vancouver Expedition. Menzies collected seed in 1792 in Nootka Sound,...
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    OL 2613329M. Naish, John (1996). The Interwoven Lives of George Vancouver, Archibald Menzies, Joseph Whidbey and Peter Puget: The Vancouver Voyage of 1791–1795...
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    Florae Novae Hollandiae, giving it the specific epithet in honor of Archibald Menzies, surgeon-naturalist on HMS Discovery under George Vancouver, who discovered...
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    in latter work on this species, also examined collections made by Archibald Menzies, David Douglas, and John Scouler, among others. By the 20th Century...
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  • German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (d. 1738) 1754 – Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (d. 1842) 1767 – Andrew Jackson, American...
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    the mountains. It also grows in coastal and montane conifer woods. Archibald Menzies found R. macrophyllum growing along with Arbutus menziesii in May...
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