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  • I'm a botanist and mechanical engineer; basically, the mission's fix-it man who played with plants.†   (source)
  • They would have preferred the sorts of venues their American friends choose, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens or the Metropolitan Club or the Boat House in Central Park.†   (source)
  • I received quite a few gifts: Springer's five-volume art history book, a set of underwear, two belts, a handkerchief, two jars of yogurt, a jar of jam, two honey cookies (small), a botany book from Father and Mother, a gold bracelet from Margot, a sticker album from the van Daans, Biomalt and sweet peas from Dussel, candy from Miep, candy and notebooks from Bep, and the high point: the book Maria Theresa and three slices of full-cream cheese from Mr. Kugler.†   (source)
  • And there was a field trip we were supposed to go on, to the Botanical Gardens, and I didn't get to go.†   (source)
  • A soccer and baseball star, his academic program had been fairly undemanding and he had been content with C's and an occasional B in history or botany.†   (source)
  • The cross-stitch itself was tedious, but the prospects were beautiful; Mother had the foresight to give me a botanical motif, knowing how I love green and growing things.†   (source)
  • Quite a palace it was, furnished with sofas and wingback chairs and side tables and coffee tables and footstools; vases of fresh flowers bloomed all over the place, making it smell like the botanical gardens of Florence.†   (source)
  • Bring them to the U.S. Botanic Garden.†   (source)
  • Alchemy is a peculiar combination of chemistry, botany, medicine, astronomy and astrology.†   (source)
  • You think I pay attention in botany class?†   (source)
  • There, in a small area like a courtyard, is the Applicable Sciences botany pond.†   (source)
  • He was knowledgeable in all the sciences: botany, astronomy, psychology, anatomy, alchemy, geology, chemistry….†   (source)
  • They didn't look like any species he recognized, but then again, the only Earth botany book he'd been able to find had been about plants native to Africa, and he thought he'd heard Wells say they were on the East Coast of what had once been the United States.†   (source)
  • It is mostly dry land biology and botany …. some geological work—core drilling and testing.†   (source)
  • In spite of being a woman, she worked as preacher, author, physician, botanist, and naturalist.†   (source)
  • A botanical aberration.†   (source)
  • I had already taken a course in botany and done very well.†   (source)
  • The pathologist stood up at his desk to tell the story, in a loud voice, at moments practically declaiming, recounting how they had done mathematical modeling, employed their own Cuban archaeologist, soil chemist, geologist, and botanist, and how, after searching for three hundred days, they had finally come upon the bones and identified them and sneaked them back to Cuba.†   (source)
  • Someone at the botanical gardens in Uppsala would later confirm that it was a plant seldom cultivated in Sweden.†   (source)
  • We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.†   (source)
  • She'd brought in several more plants, and a panel of framed botanical prints hung in a row on the wall above her desk.†   (source)
  • It was unusual, then, for Tenga to possess one such compendium, but to Eragon's amazement, he saw six others throughout the room, in addition to writings on subjects ranging from history to mathematics to astronomy to botany.†   (source)
  • She was a botanist, her husband a chemist, both of them professors.†   (source)
  • There were stadium seats labeled like rare botanical specimens—Ebbets Field, Shibe Park, Griffith Stadium.†   (source)
  • First is the American Hop Museum, which bills itself as "the nation's only hop museum dedicated to showcasing the history of the obscure perennial vine bearing the botanical name Humulus lupulus."†   (source)
  • She laid out her plans for the next three days—a visit to the High Museum of Art, a stroll through the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and three talks she had arranged for Mortenson at a local library, a community college, and a travel club.†   (source)
  • "It was either that or Botany," I reply evenly.†   (source)
  • Once, years ago, I found myself in front of the Botanical Garden and went in to see the cherry trees.†   (source)
  • The Men of Bree seemed all to have rather botanical (and to the Shire-folk rather odd) names, like Rushlight, Goatleaf, Heathertoes, Appledore, Thistlewool and Ferny (not to mention Butterbur).†   (source)
  • In the dream she had appeared with her weeping-willow hair hanging over her shoulders, like a botanical mantle that covered her down to her waist.†   (source)
  • I guess they are the botanical equivalent of the men in this prison.†   (source)
  • The moment they passed the main gate, he wondered if he hadn't awakened in his dreams, surrounded by a botanical garden in southern France.†   (source)
  • He still shot at things, but he was always in the front row for the services, watching old Roberts like a botanist watching a rare beetle.†   (source)
  • From Leasowes the travelers turned and headed south again, in the direction of London, stopping in the course of the next few days at Hagley Hall, a Palladian great house on a hill with a sweeping view somewhat like that of Monticello, Blenheim Palace at Woodstock, and then nearby Oxford, where they visited the university's botanical garden beside the river Cherwell.†   (source)
  • As the summer of coconuts wears on, Felicia's obsessions grow like something botanical, dense and violent.†   (source)
  • "I didn't know he was a botanist," Eddis said quietly to Eugenides.†   (source)
  • A quiet man with a passion for perfection, Nathan Little had worked on some of the most famous gardens in North Carolina— the Biltmore Estate, the Tryon Place, the Duke Botanical Gardens—and he knew more about plants than anyone I'd ever met.†   (source)
  • It's the home of Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and a secret Traveler flume into the unknown.†   (source)
  • If the subject was something as innocent as flowers, then Dr. William Charles Ondaatje, who was the Ceylonese Director of the Botanical Gardens, would throw scorn on any opinion and put the others in their place.†   (source)
  • She was a widow, I a bachelor (if a father), both of us well into our middle years, and to step together among the drooping peonies was as innocent as any Sunday excursion in a botanical park.†   (source)
  • My old man claimed we had even longer distinguished line—ancestress hanged in Salem for witchcraft, a g'g'g'greatgrandfather broken on wheel for piracy, another ancestress in first shipload to Botany Bay.†   (source)
  • Get over to Arbuthnot Road, the Botanical Gardens entrance is the quickest way.†   (source)
  • A botanist's madhouse, Doc said.†   (source)
  • Inside the humid alleys were botanical gardens and tropical trees that spread their branches and leaves out into the street andshared themselves with everyone.†   (source)
  • But he shot game and caught fish for the garrison pot, and studied botany and the culture of citrus.†   (source)
  • This decline had been partly disguised by an enormous efflorescence of the descriptive sciences such as zoology, botany and observational astronomy.†   (source)
  • She threw the magazine down and got off at the next stop, so disturbed by this obscene encroachment on her memory that she aimlessly paced the sunlit walks around the museum and the botanic gardens for several hours before showing up at the office, where Dr. Blackstock commented on her haggard look: "Some ghost you've seen?"†   (source)
  • Eustace, who was really rather good at botany; said it wasn't, and he was probably right; but it was something of very much the same kind.†   (source)
  • "Tiger hunts, border disputes with neighboring kingdoms, keeping up the morale of the harem, a bit of botanical research-things like that-the stuff of life," said Sam.†   (source)
  • The plant, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum, grows in gravelly soil throughout the region.   (source)
    botanists = people who study plants
  • An extensive search of the medical and botanical literature yielded not a single indication that any part of H. alpinum is poisonous.   (source)
    botanical = related to the study of plants
  • Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name.   (source)
    botanist = person who studies plants
  • Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name.   (source)
    botanical = related to the study of plants
  • In 1848, while leading an expedition through the Canadian Arctic in search of the by then missing Franklin, Richardson made a botanical comparison of H. alpinum and H. mackenzii.   (source)
  • Although a slightly smaller plant, wild sweet pea looks so much like wild potato that even expert botanists sometimes have trouble telling the species apart.   (source)
    botanists = people who study plants
  • A. califomica grows only in gypsum soil of a sort that occurs in abundance along the south shore of Lake Mead, so that is where Walsh led his team of rangers to conduct the botanical survey.   (source)
    botanical = regarding plant life in a particular region
  • "Botany and zoology," said Crake with a grin.†   (source)
  • My master's degree in botany makes me pretty sure plants need wet dirt to grow in.†   (source)
  • Mr. Chiba: "I have an uncle who knows a lot about botany.†   (source)
  • Botany smells like glue and blotter paper and pressed flowers.†   (source)
  • She was an entire botanical garden waiting to happen.†   (source)
  • Hildegard of Bingen was a preacher, a writer, a doctor, a botanist, and a biologist.†   (source)
  • "That could be the remains of a botanical testing station," she warned.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time there was a zoo in the Pondicherry Botanical Garden.†   (source)
  • My amazing botany skills aren't much use for this.†   (source)
  • Secretaries or botanists, and once the director's assistant, bring her back to the key pound.†   (source)
  • My botany background may come in useful after all.†   (source)
  • I would like very much to ask some of the botanists in the gardens about it when we get home.†   (source)
  • C H A PT E R 9 2 I made an exceptional botanical discovery.†   (source)
  • JPL: We'll get botanists in to ask detailed questions and double-check your work.†   (source)
  • If I don't, I'll be a really hungry botanist in about a year.†   (source)
  • Damn it, Jim, I'm a botanist, not a chemist!†   (source)
  • The meddling botanists have grudgingly admitted I did a good job.†   (source)
  • It's awesome to have a bunch of dipshits on Earth telling me, a botanist, how to grow plants.†   (source)
  • I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet.†   (source)
  • The botanical garden hedged in by manicured shrubs was new, but the orchard had been here before.†   (source)
  • Marie ran across the wide street to the entrance of the Botanical Gardens.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I didn't know you had an interest in botany," said Eddis.†   (source)
  • The orchard was also circular, as was the botanical garden.†   (source)
  • Rod, Cowpertown is safe in history, along with Plymouth Rock, Botany Bay, and Dakin's Colony.†   (source)
  • Her poem contains all the requirements — a cliff, a moon, a raging sea, a betrayed maiden chanting a wild melody and clad in unhealthily damp garments, with — as I recall — her streaming hair festooned with botanical specimens.†   (source)
  • The buildings that didn't burn or explode are still standing, though the botany is thrusting itself through every crack.†   (source)
  • Botany was fine, because I loved cutting up leaves and putting them under the microscope and drawing diagrams of bread mold and the odd, heart-shaped leaf in the sex cycle of the fern, it seemed so real to me.†   (source)
  • We were both interested in botany, and I tried to explain some of the things I knew without sounding like the host of the Discovery Channel.†   (source)
  • The botanist wrote in her report that it was related to the tea tree and that it was sometimes confused with its more common cousin Leptospermum scoparium, which grew in abundance in New Zealand.†   (source)
  • C#74 CHAPTER 74 The Jungle, as it is known, is the centerpiece of the U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG)—America's living museum—located adjacent to the U.S. Capitol Building.†   (source)
  • As Tennyson says in his overly botanical fashion, it is time to pluck "the blood-red blossom of war."†   (source)
  • They'd microwave popcorn, smoke some of the enhanced weed the Botanical Transgenic students were raising in one of the greenhouses; then Jimmy could pass out on the couch.†   (source)
  • The botanist said that she herself had never seen one before, but after consulting her colleagues she was to report that attempts had been made to introduce the plant at a nursery in Göteborg, and that it might, of course, be cultivated by amateur botanists.†   (source)
  • He thought of the filmbook Yueh had shown him—"Arrakis: His Imperial Majesty's Desert Botanical Testing Station.†   (source)
  • The botanist said that she herself had never seen one before, but after consulting her colleagues she was to report that attempts had been made to introduce the plant at a nursery in Göteborg, and that it might, of course, be cultivated by amateur botanists.†   (source)
  • It's said among the Fremen that there were more than two hundred of these advance bases built here on Arrakis during the Desert Botanical Testing Station period.†   (source)
  • First they went to Decor Botanicals, where a team of five seniors was developing Smart Wallpaper that would change colour on the walls of your room to complement your mood.†   (source)
  • They had lunch at one of the five-star Rejoov restaurants, on an air-conditioned pseudobalcony overlooking the main Compound organic-botanics greenhouse.†   (source)
  • Atsuro, with all due respect for your uncle who live in the country near Hita-gun, We're not kere to talk idly about botany."†   (source)
  • They rustle along the paths of the Jardin des Plantes and wind through the museum galleries; they echo in high dusty redoubts where shriveled old botanists study exotic mosses.†   (source)
  • The students in Botanical Transgenics (Ornamental Division) had created a whole array of drought-and-flood-resistant tropical blends, with flowers or leaves in lurid shades of chrome yellow and brilliant flame red and phosphorescent blue and neon purple.†   (source)
  • Your island is botanically impossible.†   (source)
  • I thought that perhaps I had come upon the forest equivalent of a queen bee, and I wondered whether this algae would ever cease to amaze me with its botanical strangeness.†   (source)
  • They're botanically impossible."†   (source)
  • A portion of the grounds of the Pondicherry Botanical Garden was made available rent-free for an exciting business opportunity and—lo and behold—India had a brand new zoo, designed and run according to the most modern, biologically sound principles.†   (source)
  • Half the people who studied botany were hippies who thought they could return to some natural world system.†   (source)
  • I guess NASA figured botany and chemistry are similar because they both end in "Y," One way or another, I ended up being your backup chemist.†   (source)
  • Extreme botany.†   (source)
  • Fear my botany powers!†   (source)
  • This is botany.†   (source)
  • Believe me, even back on Earth a botanist/mechanical engineer doesn't exactly have ladies lined up at the door.†   (source)
  • You may not have guessed this botanist/mechanical engineer was a bit of a nerd in high school, but indeed I was.†   (source)
  • All to save one dorky botanist.†   (source)
  • "He's our botanist and engineer.†   (source)
  • Why bring a botanist to Mars?†   (source)
  • But I'm a botanist, damn it.†   (source)
  • Botanist Cool.†   (source)
  • Hell yeah I'm a botanist!†   (source)
  • It has a big bay window facing the courtyard and overlooking the glassed-in Solarium off the Kitchen, where botanical varieties of every sort are currently being planted.†   (source)
  • For the next five hours, by Eragon's reckoning, Oromis delved into every aspect of his and Saphira's knowledge, from botany to woodworking to metallurgy and medicine, although he mainly concentrated on their grasp of history and the ancient language.†   (source)
  • But in the middle of the Botany examination it comes to me, like a sudden epileptic fit, that I'm not going to be a biologist, as I have thought.†   (source)
  • They would pick up a stack of books and head for the Botanical Garden next door, where they could read for hours, sprawled in the grass, the sound of traffic a constant dull thrumming in the distance.†   (source)
  • Botany.†   (source)
  • It would have been a fine road for a botany field trip, or for a painter to paint, but it was not such a good road for the march.†   (source)
  • For him I am a botanist manqué.†   (source)
  • Other eminent members of the Philosophical Society included John Bartram, who west of town, on the banks of the Schuylkill River, had created the first botanical garden in America; Dr. Benjamin Rush, an enterprising young physician and champion of humanitarian reform; and David Rittenhouse, clockmaker, optician, instrument-maker and self-taught astronomer who, to study the transit of Venus in 1769, had erected an incongruous-looking observation platform that still stood on the grounds…†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what brings it on—I'm not a botanist—but I bet it had something to do with the amount of rain we've had, and there was a hairline crack in the piping they found when they first investigated, which accounts for the transmission in the first place.†   (source)
  • I watch, as impossibly the thorny vines of Sukeena's remarkable indoor garden, lush as it is with African creepers and exotic botanical varieties from our year abroad, come alive with alarming speed.†   (source)
  • Kissed in the botanical gardens of Perth, took the Overland train east across the country just so they could say they had seen the Pacific.†   (source)
  • In his most lyrical moment, in footnote 28 of his report on the Royal Botanic Gardens, William Charles steps away from the formal paper, out of the latinized garden, and, with the passion of a snail or bird, gifts us his heart.†   (source)
  • Suddenly a car came careening around the gates of the Botanical Gardens across the wide street, and, like an angry heat-searching missile, whipped to its left and zeroed in on her.†   (source)
  • Marie raced into the Botanical Gardens; it was the key Cain is for Delta and Carlos will be killed by Cain … or whatever the codes were that had been spread through Paris!†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later he was arrested for waving firearms around in Rio de Janeiro's civic botanical gardens.†   (source)
  • It was all done in Nathan's careful, intelligent, methodical way, with as much attention to the arcana of the various regions we would be traveling through (the botany of cotton and peanuts, the origins of certain local dialects such as Gullah and Cajun, even the physiology of alligators) as that of a British colonial empire builder of the Victorian era setting forth toward the sources of the Nile.†   (source)
  • "I've never been to the Botanical Gardens," I said.†   (source)
  • They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives.†   (source)
  • So I plucked the flower out of its cranny and discovered an astonishing botanical fact.†   (source)
  • In things like Botany, my drawings were cockeyed and smudgy and I was behind the class.†   (source)
  • I don't know where I should be without the Botanical Gardens."†   (source)
  • Outside he'd show me a copy of Sinnott's Botany or Schlesinger's Chemistry.†   (source)
  • Why don't some of you take up botany?†   (source)
  • As for C. B. Clarke, he was an old botanist; and he said to my father "All you young botanists like Osmunda."†   (source)
  • In one direction, a few who read whopping books in German or French and knew their physics and botany manuals backwards, readers of Nietzsche and Spengler.†   (source)
  • When off duty, Japp was an ardent botanist, and discoursed upon minute flowers possessed of unbelievably lengthy Latin names (somewhat strangely pronounced) with an enthusiasm even greater than that he gave to his cases.†   (source)
  • Now if she had gone into business; had become a manufacturer of artificial silk or a magnate on the Stock Exchange; if she had left two or three hundred thousand pounds to Fernham, we could have been sitting at our ease to-night and the subject of our talk might have been archaeology, botany, anthropology, physics, the nature of the atom, mathematics, astronomy, relativity, geography.†   (source)
  • As for C. B. Clarke, he was an old botanist; and he said to my father "All you young botanists like Osmunda."†   (source)
  • They had rooms in the village, and so, walking in, walking out, parting late on door-mats, had said little things about the soup, about the children, about one thing and another which made them allies; so that when he stood beside her now in his judicial way (he was old enough to be her father too, a botanist, a widower, smelling of soap, very scrupulous and clean) she just stood there.†   (source)
  • I rose to go with them, but Sebastian said: "Have some more Cointreau," so I stayed and later he said, "I must go to the Botanical Gardens."†   (source)
  • In this same leisurely manner I studied zoology and botany.†   (source)
  • There would be nothing left for him as a profession except Botany or the Church.†   (source)
  • Your wanting to study botany—picked that up from Krokowski, did you?†   (source)
  • You're always learning up here—about biology and botany and slippery turning points.†   (source)
  • It's enough to make a botanist of you," the young man said to his companion.†   (source)
  • It is a color very well known in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.†   (source)
  • If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay.†   (source)
  • She entered into a discourse on botany with the gentle Mrs. Dent.†   (source)
  • For my part I've no more love for my country than I have for Botany Bay!"†   (source)
  • People are like trees in a forest; no botanist would think of studying each individual birch-tree.'†   (source)
  • Take astronomy, take botany, or zoology with its system of general principles.†   (source)
  • A lawn and garden and an infant avenue, all ruled straight like a botanical accountbook.†   (source)
  • Never had botanist such a feast as this!†   (source)
  • "Good heavens, Conseil, it's just like old times in my office at the Botanical Gardens in Paris!†   (source)
  • It was enough to distract the most ingenious classifier of terrestrial botany.†   (source)
  • Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang.†   (source)
  • At supper Anna Sergyevna again turned the conversation on botany.†   (source)
  • An old savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man!†   (source)
  • It was very little, but enough to make him appear to her a Porson or Bentley, and to put him at his ease with botanical nomenclature.†   (source)
  • Nobody would dare to publish a book about electricity which literally told one nothing about electricity; no one would dare to publish an article on botany which showed that the writer did not know which end of a plant grew in the earth.†   (source)
  • But either because the rains had given a freshness or because the sun was shedding a most glorious heat, or because two of the gentlemen were young in years and the third young in spirit--for some reason or other a change came over them, and they forgot Italy and Botany and Fate.†   (source)
  • A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.†   (source)
  • I'm taking botany too.†   (source)
  • There she sat in her white Cashmere shawl, with her head against the window— a formidable old lady, but kind to him, for he had found her some rare flower, and she was a great botanist, marching off in thick boots with a black collecting-box slung between her shoulders.†   (source)
  • I was too ignorant of botany to discover any resort of root or fruit that might lie about me; I had no means of trapping the few rabbits upon the island.†   (source)
  • And the Bois had the temporary, unfinished, artificial look of a nursery garden or a park in which, either for some botanic purpose or in preparation for a festival, there have been embedded among the trees of commoner growth, which have not yet been uprooted and transplanted elsewhere, a few rare specimens, with fantastic foliage, which seem to be clearing all round themselves an empty space, making room, giving air, diffusing light.†   (source)
  • The books were of the most varied kind, history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law, all relating to England and English life and customs and manners.†   (source)
  • Escorted by a quite respectable number of his fellow citizens, he joined his wife in the Castorp family grave, a very beautiful plot in the cemetery of Saint Catherine's Church, with a view to the botanical gardens.†   (source)
  • Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.†   (source)
  • I believe that botanists do not confirm Fuchs's story, but insist that the sunflower was native to those plains.†   (source)
  • But what's worse than— Out in San Diego I ran onto a fellow that used to be an instructor in botany in Winnemac, and he told me that with all this antibody stuff of his, Gottlieb never gave any credit to— well, he was some Russian that did most of it before and Pa Gottlieb stole all his stuff.†   (source)
  • And yet, if it were not for the loss of the charming companionship of the boys, I could rejoice over my own misfortune, for, with my strong tastes for botany and zoology, I find an unlimited field of work here, and my sister is as devoted to Nature as I am.†   (source)
  • In reality, it was something entirely different that brought the edginess to Joachim's voice and made him mention the recent lecture on botany in such a sarcastic tone.†   (source)
  • What Hans Castorp found amazing, however, was that Joachim would refer at all to Dr. Krokowski's botany, for they spoke as little of the psychoanalyst as they did of Clavdia Chauchat or Marusya—they never alluded to him, passing over his ways and works in silence.†   (source)
  • And it was in this context that the scholar had come around to speak—in his drawling East European accent with its r produced by a single tap of the tongue—of botany, or better, of mushrooms: those rank, fantastic creatures from life's twilight world, fleshly by nature, so similar to animal life that products of animal metabolism, proteins and glycogen, an animal carbohydrate, were found in their chemical makeup.†   (source)
  • He had bought some paraphernalia for his project: a book on general botany, a handy trowel for digging up plants, a herbarium, a powerful magnifying glass; and the young man went to work on his balcony, dressed for summer again now, »n one of the suits he had brought with him at the very start—this, too, another token that the year had come full circle.†   (source)
  • In its very boundlessness, Dr. Krokowski's theme recalled an enterprise to which Settembrini was devoting his labor, the encyclopedia of suffering; and like that project, it proved equally rich in its applications—as witnessed by the lecturer's recent digression into botany, or more precisely, fungi.†   (source)
  • Oh, that's where he got it—because Dr. Krokowski had recently been carrying on botanically in his lectures.†   (source)
  • With so much time on his hands, he put comparative morphology to work and made considerable progress in botanical taxonomy.†   (source)
  • I really think I shall add some botanical tomes to my collection, just to become somewhat better informed about this part of life, this realm of knowledge.†   (source)
  • Just as he left off, the maiden woke up, rubbed her eyes, got off the bank, and had a dance all alone too—such a dance that the savage looked on in ecstasy all the while, and when it was done, plucked from a neighbouring tree some botanical curiosity, resembling a small pickled cabbage, and offered it to the maiden, who at first wouldn't have it, but on the savage shedding tears relented.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he made no pretensions to botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against Linnaeus.†   (source)
  • Linnæus[68] makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman: Davy,[69] chemistry; and Cuvier,[70] fossils.†   (source)
  • If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, then, I was busy classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological treasures when that incident took place with the Scotia.†   (source)
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