After a short stay in New York, where he visited the herbarium of the botanical garden and met various botanists, Ekman arrived in Havana, Cuba, in April of 1914 only to learn that there was rioting going on the island of Hispaniola, where he had intended to begin his studies in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A vivid description of him was given by William B. Seabrook in The Iiiagic Island (1 929): Curled up in a corner in the shade, sleeping halfway on his belly like a dog, was a lean, unshaven, sandy-haired nondescript fellow with Haitian rope-soled shoes, no socks, clothes stained and shabby. . . .
...Carolus Linnaeus (also known as Carl von Linné), variously called Princeps Botanicorum...
In addition to Linnaeus, other renowned Swedish academics who taught there include Carl Rudbeck the Younger, his mentor; Olof Rudbeck the Elder, who discovered the human lymphatic system; and Anders Celsius, the astronomer who developed the temperature scale that bares his name. At the urging of the organizers of Uppsala's Linnaeus jubilee celebration, she created three commemorative products for the occasion: a hot cocoa mix, a chocolate bar and a boxed assortment of bite-size pralines flavored with wild strawberries, cardamom, cinnamon, hibiscus, rosemary and orange, lemon and thyme.
... cultural historian who is curator of Linnémuseet, the Linnaeus Museum, in central Uppsala. "It was ...
... "L" in "cannabis sativa L." refers only to Carl von Linne (Linnaeus), the Swedish taxonomist who d...
The women I focus on were marginal only from the point of view of the observers who set down words on paper, observers who were divided from the people they wrote about by cultural boundaries.2 It seems harmless to argue that each individual is central to their own lives, each person the sun around whom the universe revolves, but this text argues more than that: it suggests that each of the women mentioned were, in some objective fashion, more central to the events of her time than the sources give them credit for, and certainly more central to our understanding of these colonial encounters.
... in the year 1694 when a person known as Carl Lapp died in the Swedish parish of Hed. As neighbo... of marginal space occurs in Carl von Linné's (Carolus Linnaeus) account of his travels in nor...
... scientific description of killer whales, by [Carl] Linnaeus in 1758, called them Delphinus orca, lit... Latinized form of the surname of Carl von Linne. BLINDERMAN, supra note 27, at 166. . (311) ERNST ...
...When the great botanical systematizer Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) visited Lapland on a collecti...
... was established by the Swedish botanist Carl von Linne (Carolus Linnaeus) in the eighteenth cen...
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...Pallbearers will be Father Carl Beavers, Father Michael Carr, Father Carl Gallinge...5-14 free, 5-15 free. Linne L. Irwin. 1927-2010. Linnie L. Irwin, 82, of Cheye...
The real estate transfers are provided by The Court Report (ritasrep at worldnet.att.net). CHESAPEAKE
...Bobbitt, et al to Mr. and Mrs. Carlton T. Forbes, 709 Seagrass Reach, $470,000. Rivercres...Michielson,Co.-Exec to Mr. Phillip W. Linne, Sr., 8113 Baywood Drive, $230,000. West Estabrook...
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