Francis Masson (August 1741 – 23 December 1805) was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter. Masson was born in Aberdeen...
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Frank Bladin (redirect from Air Vice Marshal Francis Masson (Frank) Bladin CB, CBE)
Air Vice-Marshal Francis Masson Bladin, CB, CBE (26 August 1898 – 2 February 1978) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Born...
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species later acknowledged as the type species. Scottish plant-hunter Francis Masson collected this species for Kew Gardens in 1774. French naturalist Jean-Baptiste...
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Louis Claude Frédéric Masson (8 March 1847, Paris – 19 February 1923, Paris) was a French historian. His father, Francis Masson, a solicitor, was killed...
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people with the surname Masson. André Masson (1896–1987), a French artist André Masson (born 1950), a French economist Angela Masson (born 1951), an American...
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plant. Carrion plant slowly opening. Illustration of the flower by Francis Masson, 1796. "Stapelia grandiflora". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families...
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tradition of Victorian and Edwardian British plant hunters, such as Francis Masson, who undertook risks to acquire rare species of plant. In 2000, Hart...
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each July. A plaque in the Cruickshank Botanic Garden commemorates Francis Masson, a Scottish botanist, gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter...
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Maclure 1760–1843 geologist Sheina Marshall 1896–1977 marine biologist Francis Masson 1741–180? botanist 1741– c. 1805 James Clerk Maxwell 1831–1879 scientist...
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writer, author of Ossian David Mallet (Malloch) (c.1705–1765) writer Francis Masson (1741–1805) botanist William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793)...
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odour levels. Notable people from Korumburra include: Air Vice Marshal Francis Masson (Frank) Bladin, CB, CBE, distinguished airman in World War II and the...
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Massonia genus of plants is named for Scottish botanist and gardener Francis Masson, who was Kew Gardens' first plant hunter. "Massonia pustulata Jacq"...
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Desmond Macfarlane William Keble Martin John Martyn Genkei Masamune Francis Masson Carl Maximowicz Rogers McVaugh Gregor Mendel Friedrich Kasimir Medikus...
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somewhat haphazardly until the appointment of the first collector, Francis Masson, in 1771. Capability Brown, who became England's most renowned landscape...
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C. who sent him animal skins. Shortly after returning, Thunberg met Francis Masson, a Scots gardener who had come to Cape Town to collect plants for the...
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naturalist William MacGillivray (1796–1852), naturalist and ornithologist Francis Masson (1741–1805), botanist Robert Morison (1620–1683), botanist and taxonomist...
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River at Plettenberg Bay – 'piesang' being Afrikaans for 'banana'. Francis Masson, who was then the Botanical Collector for Kew, introduced it to Europe...
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Frederica Countess of Holderness, Peter Gravier, Theodore Bouchier and Francis Masson. 1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 31 21 September 1715 An Act to naturalize Frederica...
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Colony, introduced the ivy-leaved pelargonium to the Netherlands. Sir Francis Masson shipped the species to Great Britain in 1774. P. peltatum has been used...
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rocky areas. The genus is named for Scottish botanist and gardener Francis Masson.[citation needed] "Massonia etesionamibensis", World Checklist of Selected...
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Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson...
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Bartlett as Earline Jon Proudstar as Pete Sam Huntington as David Ryan Masson as Miles Barbara Crampton as Virginia Gene Jones as Robert Faizon Love as...
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on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2022. Masson, Matthieu (29 November 2019). "The death of St. Francis in Sancian and the origins of the pilgrimage"...
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The plant collections at Kew were first enlarged systematically by Francis Masson in 1771, but had since the death of George III slowly declined. In 1838...
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blunt teeth toward the tip. Scottish botanist and early plant collector Francis Masson was the first person on record who collected the Catherina-wheel pincushion...
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into Massonia. It is classed as a cryptophyte. The genus is named for Francis Masson, a Scottish botanist, gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter...
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continent in which S. aculeatissimum was documented. Scottish-born botanist Francis Masson found the plant near the Cape of Good Hope either during the years 1772–1774...
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botanist specialising in the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater plants Francis Masson (1741–1805), Scottish botanist and explorer, author of Stapeliae Novae...
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to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, from the Cape of Good Hope in 1787, by Francis Masson a Scottish plant-hunter and horticulturalist. The plants mutually beneficial...
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were in correspondence with plant collectors in the Americas and with Francis Masson and others at the Cape of Good Hope, from which hardy and half-hardy...
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