Joseph Dombey (Mâcon, France, 20 February 1742 – Montserrat, West Indies, May 1794) was a French botanist. He was involved in the "Dombey affair" which...

Dombey and Son is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to...

Dombey may refer to: Dombey, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Wood County Joseph Dombey, a French botanist Dombey and Son, a novel by Charles...

French botanist Joseph Dombey landed his collections at Cadiz in 1785, the plants were impounded and left to rot in warehouses, while Dombey was refused permission...

Nothofagus dombeyi, Dombey's beech, coigue, coihue or coigüe (from Mapudungun koywe) is a tree species native to southern Chile and the Andean parts of...

Brazil, and Chile. It was first described by Antonio José Cavanilles and Joseph Dombey in 1808. Plants of the World Online accepts this as the species name...

were drawn by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, who later gave L'Héritier the credit for starting him on his career and fame. Joseph Dombey, a young French adventurer...

generic name commemorates Joseph Dombey (1742–1794), a French botanist and explorer in South America, involved in the notorious "Dombey affair", embroiling...

physician Joseph Dombey and pharmacologist José Antonio Pavón Jiménez appointed as his assistants. Two prestigious botanical illustrators, Joseph Bonete...

the United States, and Joseph Dombey was sent from France with a standard kilogram. Before reaching the United States, Dombey's ship was blown off course...

scientific expedition of Hipólito Ruiz López, José Antonio Pavón and Joseph Dombey, sent to study the flora of the viceroyalty. The expedition lasted from...

a thickener, or for its by-products (starch or modified starches). Joseph Dombey, in a letter written from Lima on May 20, 1779, specifies the ancestral...

and 1788 these Spanish botanists (together with the French botanist Joseph Dombey) visited Chile, Peru and other South American countries. Their standard...

taper to a pointed apex. The type specimens include one collected by Joseph Dombey near Lima of Peru and another by Archibald Menzies (lectotype) from...

Valparaiso Chile, while type material also includes a specimen collected by Joseph Dombey from Lima, Peru. The interpretation of Ramalina ceruchis of South America—over...

was named the head botanist of the expedition. The French physician Joseph Dombey was named as his assistant, and the pharmacologist José Antonio Pavón...

Napoleon's Minister of the Navy Cape Dombey 37°10′S 139°45′E / 37.167°S 139.750°E / -37.167; 139.750 Joseph Dombey, French naturalist of the Americas...

Hipólito Ruiz and José Antonio Pavón. Also arriving on the El Peruano was Joseph Dombey, a Frenchman who had served as second botanist on the Ruiz and Pavón...

scientific expedition of Hipólito Ruiz López, José Antonio Pavón and Joseph Dombey, sent to study the flora of the viceroyalty. Their findings were later...

Dedlock's secret in Bleak House. Bagstock, Major Joseph Neighbour of Miss Tox and friend of Paul Dombey who introduces Paul to Edith Granger and Mrs Skewton...

doctors, philosophers and scientists. Even before Linnaeus, botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming...

his studies. Dickens wrote without an outline, unlike his previous novel, Dombey and Son. Some aspects of the story were fixed in his mind from the start...

is thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens's novel Dombey and Son (1848). In January 1815, John Dickens...

Bruce Westrop (in 1979) in Emmerdale Farm. He also played Major Bagstock in Dombey and Son (1983), and appeared in the first series of All in Good Faith in...

also appears in Dickens's novels Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and Dombey and Son. M. R. James quotes a passage from this set as the preface for his...

Collier, in 1828. He is mentioned in the Charles Dickens novels Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, The Pickwick Papers and David Copperfield and in the C. M. Kornbluth...

trustees before which Mr Bumble presents himself is a friend of Mr Dombey in Dombey and Son; the churchman on the board (only named in the credits) is...

fille, and between Dostoyevsky's Netochka Nezvanova and Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son. Like many young writers, he was "not fully convinced of his own...

plays such as The Yankee Gal (1853), Ireland As It Is and Woman's Wrong, Dombey and Son (1862), The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863), and Our Governor (1885)...

jovial and kindly man". Henry was also used as the basis for Paul Dombey Jr in Dombey and Son. Others who have examined the Christian theme include Geoffrey...