Sir David Prain CMG CIE FRS FRSE (11 July 1857 – 16 March 1944) was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went...
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gardens of the Victoria Memorial were designed by Lord Redesdale and David Prain. Emerson's assistant, Vincent Jerome Esch, designed the bridge of the...
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used the same scientific name to refer to Albizia kalkora written by David Prain, the Mimosa kalkora of William Roxburgh.[clarification needed][citation...
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appear. A total of 245 genera and 334 plant species were recorded by David Prain in 1903. While most of the mangroves in other parts of the world are...
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Helicia rufescens (category Taxa named by David Prain)
Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Order: Proteales Family: Proteaceae Genus: Helicia Species: H. rufescens Binomial name Helicia rufescens Prain...
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to the Lakshadweep in 1875 were studied by George King and later by David Prain. Hume's herbarium specimens were donated to the collection of the Botanical...
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century, this tree was thought to be the source of the oil. In 1901, Sir David Prain identified the chaulmoogra seeds of the Calcutta bazaar and of the Paris...
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Théophile; Benjamin Daydon Jackson; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer; David Prain; Arthur William Hill; Edward James Salisbury (1908). Index Kewensis plantarum...
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Dukinfield Henry Scott 1912–1916: Sir Edward Poulton 1916–1919: Sir David Prain 1919–1923: Arthur Smith Woodward 1923–1927: Alfred Barton Rendle 1927–1931:...
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New York Botanical Garden. 1917. p. 53. Sir William Jackson Hooker; David Prain; Otto Stapf (1856). Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Vol. 82. Reeve Brothers...
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(1877–1947), Lt. Col. Heber Drury, William Griffith (1810–1845), Sir David Prain (1857–1944), J. F. Duthie, P. D. Stracey, Richard Strachey (1817–1908)...
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by his visits to the Dominions and Colonies' 1925: Lieut-Colonel Sir David Prain CMG CIE ME LLD FRS 'for the application of Botany to the development...
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Gleadovia (category Taxa named by David Prain)
& Aver. Gleadovia mupinensis Hu Gleadovia ruborum Gamble & Prain "Gleadovia Gamble & Prain | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the...
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Woodburnia (category Taxa named by David Prain)
lieutenant governor of Bengal, John Woodburn. It was described by botanist David Prain as having striking flowers unusually large for the Araliaceae family...
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Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir John Halliday Croom, Sir David Prain, Sir William Turner and Sir George Andreas Berry. This membership leads...
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Dalton Hooker 1885–1905 Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer 1905–1922 Sir David Prain 1922–1941 Sir Arthur William Hill 1941–1943 Sir Geoffrey Evans (acting)...
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Old Chiswick Cemetery on April 17, 1924. The funeral was attended by David Prain and a number of his old colleagues. The value of his estate at the time...
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black blight, forming black patches on mango leaves. Massee, George, David Prain. Diseases of cultivated plants and trees. New York: Macmillan Publishers...
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agendas of forest management in British India 1800–1900. pp. 324–371. Prain, David (1912). "Brandis, Dietrich" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National...
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David Prain. He died on 26 October 1934 at Ascension Vicarage in Plumstead in Kent. He married Kate Mowbray Styles in 1879. Their son was Rev David Lawrence...
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In 1898 King was succeeded at the Calcutta Botanical Gardens by Sir David Prain (1857–1944). King married Jane Anne Nicol (1845-1898) in 1868. Jane fell...
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1933: Robert Hippolyte Chodat 1934: Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer 1935: Sir David Prain 1936: John Stanley Gardiner 1937: Frederick Frost Blackman 1938: Sir...
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provisionally described as a species by Wilhelm Olbers Focke in 1910. David Prain formally recognized it as an accepted species in a supplement to Index...
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unjustified dismissal. Despite being a bane to the, then, Kew Director, David Prain, the latter recognized the talents of William Purdom and recommended...
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Moore-Lane Frederic J. Mouat Thomas Shephard Novis Harold Rothery Nutt David Prain Amar Prasad Ray Leonard Rogers Ronald Ross Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi...
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Indigofera arrecta, experiments on which were also made at Calcutta by David Prain) and varieties from around the world. After Hancock left, the station...
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Comptroller and Accountant-General, General Post Office 14 June 1912 Lt-Col. David Prain, CIE, FRS Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew 14 June 1912 Francis...
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later raised plants from seeds that had been presented to him, by Sir David Prain, director of the Royal Botanic Garden. Which turned out to be similar...
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William Murray Watson Queensland Fire Services Graham David Luck ED Ian McDonald Mitchell David Prain John Vayro Kevin Patrick Walsh Western Australia Fire...
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Théophile; Benjamin Daydon Jackson; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer; David Prain; Arthur William Hill; Edward James Salisbury (1908). Index Kewensis plantarum...
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