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Titus Smith Jr.
Titus Smith Jr. (4 September 17684 January 1850) was an American-born Canadian farmer, surveyor, botanist, author, and journalist. Early life and education Titus Smith Jr. was born on 4 September 1768 in Granby, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was the eldest child of Rev. Titus Smith and Damaris Nash (née Waite). Titus Smith's father, a Massachusetts native and Yale College graduate, was an itinerant minister with a keen interest in scholarly subjects. The younger Titus was first taught at home by his father. Titus learned to read early under his father's guidance, reading English books by age four. He was soon enrolled at a private school in New Haven, Connecticut. By age seven, he was proficient in Latin, translating its most difficult texts by twelve. He also practiced Greek, German, and French. In 1779, his mother died at 42 years old leaving four children behind. Smith's father remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. At the end of the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granby, Massachusetts
Granby is a New England town, town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,110 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield metropolitan area, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The census-designated place of Granby (CDP), Massachusetts, Granby corresponds to the main village of Granby in the center of the town. Etymology The town is named in honor of John Manners, Marquess of Granby, a hero of the Seven Years' War. The place name, Granby, refers to a Granby, Nottinghamshire, village in Nottinghamshire, taking its name from the personal name ''Gráni'' and the Old English suffix ''bȳ'', denoting a farmstead or settlement. History Settlement Granby was once part of Hadley, Massachusetts, Hadley, as were other towns, as part of Hadley Equivalent Lands. Old Hadley was first settled in 1659 by people from Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut. These settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax Mechanics' Institute
Halifax Mechanics' Institute was an educational institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that was established in 1831. History Founded on 17 October 1831 by the Halifax Mechanics' Library Association, the Halifax Mechanics' Library paved the way for the creation of a mechanics' institute in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was modelled after the mechanics' institutes founded in Glasgow and London during the early to mid-1820s. The ''Acadian Recorder'' on 24 December 1831 invited members of the recently founded Halifax Mechanics' Library and others to meet on the 27th of December to consider establishing a mechanics' institute. Dr. William Grigor took the chair as the assembly moved, seconded, and passed the resolutions by a wide margin. Dr. W. Grigor served as the first president, with John Leander Starr and Joseph Howe as vice-presidents, William M. DeBlois as treasurer, John Sparrow Thompson as secretary, and Robert Lawson as procuror of models and curator. Officer elections were co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant Ecologist
Plant ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the effects of environmental factors upon the abundance of plants, and the interactions among plants and between plants and other organisms. Examples of these are the distribution of temperate deciduous forests in North America, the effects of drought or flooding upon plant survival, and competition among desert plants for water, or effects of herds of grazing animals upon the composition of grasslands. A global overview of the Earth's major vegetation types is provided by O.W. Archibold. He recognizes 11 major vegetation types: tropical forests, tropical savannas, arid regions (deserts), Mediterranean ecosystems, temperate forest ecosystems, temperate grasslands, coniferous forests, tundra (both polar and high mountain), terrestrial wetlands, freshwater ecosystems and coastal/marine systems. This breadth of topics shows the complexity of plant ecology, since it includes plants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Claudius Loudon
John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1782 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author, born in Cambuslang in 1782. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study. He was married to Jane C. Loudon, Jane Webb, a fellow Horticulture, horticulturalist, and author of Science fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, Horror film, horror, and Gothic fiction, gothic stories. Early life Loudon was born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland to a respectable farmer. Therefore, as he was growing up, he developed a practical knowledge of plants and farming. As a young man, Loudon studied biology, botany and agriculture at the University of Edinburgh. When working on the layout of farms in South Scotland, he described himself as a landscape planning, landscape planner. This was a time when open field land was being converted from run rig with 'ferm touns' to the landscape of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François André Michaux
François André Michaux (16 August 1770 – 23 October 1855) was a French people, French botany, botanist, son of André Michaux and the namesake of Michaux State Forest in Pennsylvania. Michaux ''père'' botanized in North America for nearly a dozen years (1785–96) as royal collector for France. Travels Michaux accompanied his father, André Michaux (1746–1802), to the United States, and his ''Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale'' (three volumes, 1810–13) contains the results of his explorations, giving an account of the distribution and the scientific classification of the principal American timber trees north of Mexico and east of the Rocky Mountains. Michaux trekked the Allegheny Mountains in 1789 when trans-Allegheny travel was limited to Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous peoples' trails and one military trail, Braddock Road (Braddock expedition), Braddock Road, built in 1751. He travelled with friend and botanist John Fraser ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Graham (botanist)
Robert Graham (3 December 1786 – 7 August 1845) was a Scottish physician and botanist. Life Graham was born in Stirling the son of Dr Robert Graham, physician. After studying at Stirling Grammar School he continued first to the University of Glasgow and then to the University of Edinburgh where he graduated around 1806, and completed his MD in 1808. He trained further at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he qualified as a surgeon. He then returned to Scotland to practice at Glasgow Royal Infirmary 1812-3 and 1816–19. In 1816 he began lecturing in botany at the University of Glasgow, taking over from Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs following his resignation. He was a major figure in the creation of Glasgow Botanic Gardens, and was the inaugural Chair of Botany at the Glasgow in 1818. In 1820 he moved to Edinburgh to take up the position of Professor of Botany and Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, a role he continued until 1845. He was also physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Howe
Joseph Howe (December 13, 1804 – June 1, 1873) was a Nova Scotian journalist, politician, public servant, and poet. Howe is often ranked as one of Nova Scotia's most admired politicians and his considerable skills as a journalist and writer have made him a provincial legend. He was born the son of John Howe (loyalist), John Howe and Mary Edes at City of Halifax, Halifax and inherited from his loyalist father an undying love for Great Britain and her British Empire, Empire. At age 23, the self-taught but widely read Howe purchased the ''Novascotian'', soon making it into a popular and influential newspaper. He reported extensively on debates in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and travelled to every part of the province writing about its geography and people. In 1835, Howe was charged with seditious libel, a serious criminal offence, after the ''Novascotian'' published a letter attacking Halifax politicians and police for pocketing public money. Howe addressed the jury for mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts Historical Society
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history. The Massachusetts Historical Society was established in 1791 and is located at 1154 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts, and is the oldest historical society in the United States. The society's building was constructed in 1899 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. In 2016, the Boston Landmarks Commission designated it a Boston Landmark. History The society was founded on January 24, 1791, by Reverend Jeremy Belknap to collect, preserve, and document items of American history. He and the nine other founding members donated family papers, books, and artifacts to the society to form its initial collection. Its first manuscript was published in 1792, becoming the first historical society publication in the United States. The society incorporated in 1794; signatories included William Baylies, Jeremy Belknap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairview, Nova Scotia
Fairview is a community within the urban area of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. History Prior to European colonization, the Mi'kmaq lived on the land for thousands of years. In the 1750s, many of the Foreign Protestants settled in the area. First known as the ''Westerwald'' ("western forest"), the settlement was called the ''Dutch Village'' by non-German locals. Some of the passengers of the Foreign Protestant ships settled temporarily in the Dutch Village while they waited for a more permanent settlement in Lunenburg County. In the early 20th century, most of the current street network in the area was established. It formed a regular grid pattern up the eastern slope of Geizers Hill, facing toward the Bedford Basin and the Halifax peninsula. After World War I, the railway lines in the Fairview area came under control of Canadian National Railways. Canadian National Railways established its new locomotive servicing shops and roundhouse for the Halifax area in the communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Systema Naturae
' (originally in Latin written ' with the Orthographic ligature, ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Sweden, Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy. Although the system, now known as binomial nomenclature, was partially developed by the Bauhin brothers, Gaspard Bauhin, Gaspard and Johann Bauhin, Johann, Linnaeus was the first to use it consistently throughout his book. The first edition was published in 1735. The full title of the 10th edition (1758), which was the most important one, was ', which appeared in English in 1806 with the title: "A General System of Nature, Through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Systematically Divided Into their Several Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, and Varieties, with their Habitations, Manners, Economy, Structure and Peculiarities". The 10th edition of Systema Naturae, tenth edition of this book (1758) is considered the starting point of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
