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Lily May Perry
Lily May Perry (1895-1992) was a Canadian-American botanist who worked at Arnold Arboretum and is most known for detailed compilation of information on medicinal plants of East and Southeast Asia and her assistance with the ''Flora of New Guinea''. Perry also has the legacy of authoring the third highest number of land plant species among female scientists, in total naming 414 species. Early life and education Perry was born in Havelock, New Brunswick, Canada on January 5, 1895. Her early education was in a one-room school. She received teacher training at Provincial Normal School in Fredericton. After a short period of teaching, she attended Acadia University and received a B.S. in Biology with honors in 1921. She spent an additional 3 years teaching before being admitted to Radcliffe College, where she took coursework from Prof. E. C. Jeffries and M. L. Fernald and received her M.A. in 1925. In 1930, she received a fellowship for doctoral study under J. M. Greenman at Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havelock, New Brunswick
Havelock, New Brunswick is a Canadian rural community in Kings County, New Brunswick. Havelock is at the junction of Route 885 and Route 880. There is a small public airport nearby. The community is situated on a large lime deposit and its extraction has driven the local economy, beginning with a Lafarge cement plant constructed in the 1960s and current mothballed since the early 1990s. Graymont operates a lime quarry and kiln to supply eastern Canada and New England with 300 tonnes per day. History Havelock was named after Sir Henry Havelock and was previously known as Butternut Ridge. Notable people * Lily May Perry, botanist * George McCready Price, creationist Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' says that creationism is 'th ... See also * List of communities in New Brunswick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perryodendron
''Perryodendron'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. The only known species is ''Perryodendron parviflorum''. The species is found in New Guinea. The genus name of ''Perryodendron'' is in honour of Lily May Perry (1895–1992), a Canadian-American botanist who worked at Arnold Arboretum and is most known for detailed compilation of information on medicinal plants of East and Southeast Asia. The Latin specific epithet of ''parviflorum'' is a compound, ''parv-'' meaning little and '-florum' meaning flower. It was first described and published in Adansonia ''Adansonia'' is a genus made up of eight species of medium-to-large deciduous trees known as baobabs ( or ). They are placed in the Malvaceae family, subfamily Bombacoideae. They are native to Madagascar, mainland Africa, and Australia.Trop ..., sér.3, Vol.19 on page 198 in 1997. References {{Taxonbar, from1=Q21078565, from2=Q18081856 Zanthoxyloideae Monotypic Rutaceae gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Women Botanists
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
