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    Johann Jacob Dillen Dillenius (1684 – 2 April 1747) was a German botanist. He is known for his Hortus Elthamensis ("Eltham Garden") on the rare plants...
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    travelled to Oxford University to visit the botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius. He failed to make Dillenius publicly fully accept his new classification system...
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    islands.: 154–156  The genus is named after the German botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius. The leaves are simple and spirally arranged. They are generally...
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    first studied in detail in the 18th century. The German botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius (1687–1747) was a professor at Oxford and in 1717 produced the work...
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    5 mm across. The species was illustrated as far back as 1732 by Johann Jacob Dillenius in his Hortus Elthamensis, vol. 1, and described as "Achyracantha...
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  • Peru and Venezuela. The genus name of Neodillenia is in honour of Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747), a German born botanist, that moved to London and published...
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  • chair was to be Johann Jacob Dillenius. The Sherardian Professor is also a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford Johann Jacob Dillenius (1734 to 1747) Humphry...
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    referred to five earlier authors who had described the plant: Johann Jacob Dillenius, Jacob Breyne (who calls it a Lapathum, known as Ribes arabicum), Richard...
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    begun. First greenhouses in the Botanic Garden constructed. 1734 – Johann Jacob Dillenius is appointed first Sherardian Professor of Botany. 1737 – 17 May:...
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    In 1719, with the discovery that some species flowered at night, Johann Jacob Dillenius changed the spelling to Mesembryanthemum ("flower with the pistil...
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    circumscribed by Michel Adanson in 1763. He used the name designated by Johann Jacob Dillenius, whose earlier published description did not meet the rules of valid...
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    Hesse-Darmstadt from 1711 to 1754 Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747), botanist Johann Heinrich Merck (1741–1791), author and critic Johann Christian Felix Baehr (1798–1872)...
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  • British Telescope: Being an Ephemeris of the Coelestial Motions. Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes Historia Muscorum, a significant work on cryptogams. May...
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  • Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747) 1724 Flora Capensis Johann Philipp Breyne (1680–1764) Jacob Breyne 1728–36 London Historia...
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    Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina...
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  • James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675) 1747 – Johann Jacob Dillenius, German-English botanist and mycologist (b. 1684) 1754 – Thomas...
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    Pelargonium inquinans, (Geranium Afric. arborescens), Johann Jacob Dillenius Hortus Elthamensis 1732...
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    British botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius in 1732. Recognizing Dillenius' contribution, Darlington referred to Desmodium dillenii as Dillenius's Desmodium. In...
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    Sherard, when he did the nomenclatural parts of Hortus Elthamensis by Johann Jacob Dillenius, and The Natural History of Carolina by Mark Catesby, to denote...
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  • involved some significant events some of which are enumerated here. Johann Jacob Dillenius publishes Catalogus plantarum sponte c. Gissam nascentium. Michael...
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    literary and political historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus and botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius. Ernest Rutherford, the Rutherford's atomic model creator, studied...
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  • Desportes Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux Nicaise Auguste Desvaux Johann Jacob Dillenius Kurt Dinter Pedanius Dioscorides Kingsley Dixon Rembert Dodoens...
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    the Royal Society of London. Martyn was one of the founders (with Johann Jacob Dillenius and others) and the secretary of a botanical society which met for...
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  • naturalist, one of the first scientists to work in New Zealand Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747), German botanist who worked in England on rare plants...
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    Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675) April 2 – Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684) April 3 – Francesco Solimena, Italian...
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    Chevallier Louisa Collings Chicita F. Culberson William Louis Culberson Johann Jacob Dillenius Alexander Elenkin Andrei Famintsyn Elias Magnus Fries Nina Golubkova...
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  • German botanist. He first studied medicine in 1704 and met then Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684-1747). He first studied in Iena in 1711, then in Leiden in...
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    in the family Stereocaulaceae. First described scientifically by Johann Jacob Dillenius in 1741, and then formally by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is the type...
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    Grandidier (1836–1921) Caryophyllales Ba Dilleniaceae Dillenia P Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747) Dilleniales Dioncophyllaceae Dioncophyllum G two-hooked...
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  • Browne, daughter of Humphrey Browne of Lincoln. After the death of Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747), he became the Sherardian Professor of Botany at the...
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