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Jill Smythies Award
The Jill Smythies Award of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1986 and is awarded annually to a botanical artist. The award was established by Bertram Smythies, in honour of his wife, Florence Mary Smythies ("Jill"), whose career as a botanical artist was cut short by an accident to her right hand. Recipients of the Jill Smythies Award * Alice Tangerini (2020) *Deborah Lambkin (2019) * Niki Simpson and Juliet Williamson (2018) * Karin Douthit and David Williamson (2017) * Anita Barley (2016) * Claire Banks (2015) * Esmee Somers Winkel (2014) * ''not awarded'' (2013) * ''not awarded'' (2012) * Margaret Tebbs (2011) * Susan Sex (2010) * Halina Bednarek-Ochyra (2009) * Patricia Eckel (2008) * Jan van Os (2007) * Bobbi Angell (2006) * Lesley Elkan (2005) * Lucy Theres Smith (2004) * Maya Koistinen (2003) * Jenny Brasier (2002) * Juan Luis Castillo (2001) * Bo Mossberg and Jean Annette Paton (2000) * Pandora Sellars (1999) * Rodella Anne Purves (1998) * Celi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnean Society Of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature collections, and publishes academic journals and books on plant and animal biology. The society also awards a number of prestigious medals and prizes. A product of the 18th-century enlightenment, the Society is the oldest extant biological society in the world and is historically important as the venue for the first public presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection on 1 July 1858. The patron of the society was Queen Elizabeth II. Honorary members include: King Charles III of Great Britain, Emeritus Emperor Akihito of Japan, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (both of latter have active interests in natural history), and the eminent naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. History Founding The Linnean Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Elkan
Lesley is a placename, given name and surname, a variant of Leslie that can be male or female name and is ultimately an anglicization of a Scottish (Gaelic) placename. Places * Fort Lesley J. McNair, American army facility * Lesley University, American academic institution People Given name * Lesley Baker (b. 1944), Australian actress * Lesley Bamberger (born 1965/1966), Dutch billionaire, owner of Kroonenberg Groep * Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), British writer and editor * Lesley M. M. Blume, American author * Lesley Turner Bowrey (b. 1942), Australian tennis player * Lesley-Ann Brandt (b. 1981), South African-born actress * Lesley Choyce (b. 1951), American-born writer based in Canada * Lesley Douglas (b. 1963), British radio executive * Lesley-Anne Down (b. 1954), British actress * Lesley Ann Downey (1954–1964), British murder victim * Lesley Duncan (1943–2010), British singer-songwriter * Lesley Dunlop (b. 1956), British actress * Lesley Elliott (other), multiple p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Mendum (botanist)
Mary Mendum (1945-2004), born Caroline Mary Bates, was a British botanist, taxonomist and botanical illustrator. A number of plant species were described and named by her, as well as others named in memory of her. The Mary Mendum Medal is awarded in her honour for an exceptional outstanding botanical illustration. Career Mendum was a botanist, taxonomist and botanical illustrator; she worked at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. She undertook botanical fieldwork in the Philippines and Indonesia collecting specimens, publishing on them and naming them. In 1993 Mendum, under her name of Caroline Mary Bates, was awarded the Jill Smythies Award for botanical illustration. Species named by or in honour of Mary Mendum Source: *''Aeschynanthus arctocalyx'' Mendum & Madulid. Described and name published by Mendum and Madulid in 1995. *''Aeschynanthus argentii'' Mendum. Described and name published by Mendum in 1999. *''Aeschynanthus batakiorum'' Mendum & Madulid. Described and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Dalby
Joy Claire Allison Dalby (born 20 November 1944) is a British artist and book illustrator who mainly depicts botanical subjects and who works in watercolours, gouache and wood engraving. Biography Dalby, whose father was the respected watercolour painter Charles Longbotham, was born in St Andrews in Scotland. She attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls at Acton in west London from 1955 to 1963. Dalby studied art, specialising in engraving and calligraphy, at the City and Guilds of London Art School from 1964 to 1967. In 1966 she had her first picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Dalby exhibited at the Clarges Gallery in 1968 and in 1972. A number of solo exhibitions followed including at Camberley in Surrey during 1975, at Halifax House in Oxford in 1987 and at the Consort Gallery of Imperial College in both 1981 and 1988. Also in 1988 Dalby had a solo exhibition at the Shetland Museum in Lerwick. She has participated in a number of group shows including e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Wise
''Salvia rosmarinus'' (), commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region. Until 2017, it was known by the scientific name ''Rosmarinus officinalis'' (), now a synonym. It is a member of the sage family Lamiaceae, which includes many other medicinal and culinary herbs. The name "rosemary" derives from Latin ("dew of the sea"). Rosemary has a fibrous root system. Description Rosemary is an aromatic evergreen shrub with leaves similar to hemlock needles. It is native to the Mediterranean and Asia, but is reasonably hardy in cool climates. Special cultivars like 'Arp' can withstand winter temperatures down to about . It can withstand droughts, surviving a severe lack of water for lengthy periods. In some parts of the world, it is considered a potentially invasive species. The seeds are often difficult to start, with a low germination rate and relatively slow growth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent Jonsen
Bent may refer to: Places * Bent, Iran, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Bent District, an administrative subdivision of Iran * Bent, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Rijnwoude, the Netherlands * Bent County, Colorado, United States * Bents, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community in Canada * Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, frontier trading post, in La Junta, Colorado Arts and entertainment * ''Bent'' (play), a 1979 play by Martin Sherman ** ''Bent'' (1997 film), a 1997 film by Sean Mathias based on the play * ''Bent'' (2018 film) * ''Bent'' (TV series), an NBC romantic television comedy series * Bent (band), an electronica duo from England * '"Bent" (song), a 2000 song by Matchbox Twenty * ''Bent'' (magazine), a UK magazine * ''Bent'' (album), a 2012 album by Ssion * ''Bent,'' a 2019 album by Stonefield Science * Bent molecular geometry, in chemistry * Bent's rule, about atomic orbital hybridization * Bent grass or bent, the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia Elizabeth Rosser
Celia Elizabeth Rosser (born 1930) is an Australian botanical illustrator, best known for having published '' The Banksias'', a three-volume series of monographs containing watercolour paintings of every '' Banksia'' species. Born Celia Elizabeth Prince, she began painting Australian wildflowers early in her artistic career. She first began painting ''Banksia''s after seeing a '' Banksia serrata'' near her home in Orbost, Victoria. Her first exhibition was at Leveson Gallery in Melbourne in 1965, and included three watercolours of ''Banksia'' species. Two years later she published ''Wildflowers of Victoria''. In 1970, Rosser was appointed Science Faculty Artist at Monash University. She illustrated Peter Bridgewater's ''The Saltmarsh Plants of Southern Australia'' and ''The Mosses of Southern Australia'' by George Scott and Ilma Grace Stone. In 1974 she was appointed University Botanical Artist, and began the project of painting every ''Banksia'' species. The project took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodella Anne Purves
Rodella Anne Purves (6 July 1945 – 17 January 2008) was a British botanical artist. Purves was born in 1945 in Paisley, Scotland, and two years later moved to Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ... with her family, where she attended St. Margaret's School. She received a degree in agriculture from Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture. She trained at Cambridge as a seed tester. She spent a year in New Zealand, working for the government's Department of Industry, before returning to Edinburgh to work at the Royal Botanic Garden. Purves left the Botanic Garden in 1976 to concentrate on her career as a botanical artist. Her work was exhibited around the world, in the United States, Ireland, Japan and Germany, with the Queen's Royal Botani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandora Sellars
In Greek mythology, Pandora ( Greek: , derived from , ''pān'', i.e. "all" and , ''dōron'', i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "all-gifted" or "all-giving") was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. As Hesiod related it, each god cooperated by giving her unique gifts. Her other name—inscribed against her figure on a white-ground ''kylix'' in the British Museum—is Anesidora ( grc, Ἀνησιδώρα), "she who sends up gifts" (''up'' implying "from below" within the earth). The Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world, according to which, Pandora opened a jar (''pithos'') (commonly referred to as " Pandora's box") releasing all the evils of humanity. It has been argued that Hesiod's interpretation of Pandora's story went on to influence both Jewish and Christian theology and so perpetuated her bad reputation into the Renaissance. Later poets, dramatists, painters and sculptors made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Annette Paton
Jean Annette Paton (née Comins or Comyn; born 4 January 1929) is a British botanist, bryologist and botanical illustrator. She has written many books on the bryology of the United Kingdom and the flora of Cornwall, and described several new species. Paton has been called the "queen of vice-county recording" for her prolific records of bryological specimens in the second half of the 20th century. She was president of the British Bryological Society in 1976 and 1977. Early life Paton was born on 4 January 1929. She is dyslexic and could not read until she was nine. Paton taught herself to draw and paint flowers when she was young, which later helped her to learn their names. She attended Bedford College in London from 1947, and later completed an MSc, doing a dissertation on the bryophytes of the sandstone rocks of Kent and Sussex. Career Paton began work at the University of Southampton's Botany Department in 1952 as a research and herbarium assistant, and later became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Mossberg
''Den nya nordiska floran'' ("The new Nordic flora") is a book of Swedish flora from 2003 by Bo Mossberg and Lennart Stenberg, with illustrations by Bo Mossberg. It contains descriptions, illustrations and distribution maps of all plants in Sweden, Denmark, Norway (including Svalbard), Finland, Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic archipelago, island group and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotlan ... and Iceland, a total of more than 3,250 species. It is a sequel to the earlier book ''Den nordiska floran''. It has been called indispensable as a reference book, but criticized for being too heavy to be a field flora. It was translated into Danish by Jon Feilberg, titled ''Den Nye Nordiske Flora''. The book is fact-checked by Thomas Karlsson. It was also translated into Norwegian by Steinar Moen, with fact-checking by Svein Bå ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Luis Castillo
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of '' John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, the diminutive form (equivalent to ''Johnny'') is , with feminine form (comparable to ''Jane'', ''Joan'', or ''Joanna'') , and feminine diminutive (equivalent to ''Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc.). Chinese terms * ( or 娟, 隽) 'beautiful, graceful' is a common given name for Chinese women. * () The Chinese character 卷, which in Mandarin is almost homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be translated as 'fascicle', 'scroll', 'chapter', or 'volume'. Notable people * Juan (footballer, born 1979), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, born March 2002), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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