• William Thomas Stearn CBE FLS VMH (/stɜːrn/; 16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge in 1911, he was largely self-educated...
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  • (1796-1862), English cricketer William T. Stearn (1911–2001), British botanist Stern (surname) Stearne, given name and surname Stearns (surname) This page lists...
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    representation of the shield and spear of the Roman god Mars. According to William T. Stearn, however, this derivation is "fanciful" and all the historical evidence...
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    Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. He is considered...
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    Glycine violacea in his book, Icones Plantarum Rariorum. In 1940, William T. Stearn transferred the species to Hardenbergia as H. violacea in the Journal...
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  • A Life of Linnaeus (Collins, 1971, with William T. Stearn) Captain Cook's Florilegium (1973, with W. T. Stearn) The Golden Road to Samarkand (1973) On...
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  • (1907–1971), American actor and sportscaster William T. Stearn (1911–2001), British botanist Bill Stearns (1853–1898), American baseball player This disambiguation...
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  • with any language of Latin origin, and one month for an Italian. William T. Stearn wrote: Botanical Latin is best described as a modern Romance language...
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    et Agri Marburgensis: Reprint with introduction and biography by William T. Stearn. Otto Koeltz Antiquariat, Koenigstein-Taunus. Koch, K. 1869. Dendrologie:...
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    Australium :prodromus. Gottingae. p. 44. Retrieved 22 November 2022. William T. Stearn (1992). Botanical Latin. History, grammar, syntax, terminology and...
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    paperback ed.). London: Hale. ISBN 0-7090-5440-8. OCLC 33964778. William T. Stearn (1965). The five bretheren of the rose: An old botanical riddle (PDF)...
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    Mullens and Swann – A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917) William T. Stearn – The Natural History Museum at South Kensington, ISBN 0-434-73600-7...
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    in nurseries. Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607. However, William T. Stearn in his book Botanical Latin says "Botanical Latin is essentially a...
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    substantially paler than the true colours a mixture of paints would produce. William T. Stearn. Botanical Latin. History, Grammar Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary...
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    Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 29 April 2023. William T. Stearn (1992). Botanical Latin. History, grammar, syntax, terminology and...
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    322–341. Stearn, William T. (1986). "Historical survey of the naming of cultivated plants". Acta Horticulturae. 182: 18–28. Stearn, William T. (1992)....
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    outside Sweden after his return from Holland. The British botanist William T. Stearn notes, without Linnaeus's new system, it would not have been possible...
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    Vieillot, 1816. Australian Faunal Directory Pfennigwerth, S. (2010). "(William T. Stearn Prize 2009) "The mighty cassowary": The discovery and demise of the...
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  • trecenta milia computatrorum in omni orbe terrarum invasit." Pons: virus William T. Stearn: Botanical Latin. History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary...
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    plants and 4,236 are animals. According to the historian of botany William T. Stearn, "Even in 1753 he believed that the number of species of plants in...
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    Science. Animal Models. Vol. II (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 163, 166. William T. Stearn: Botanical Latin. History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary...
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    2011. Stearn, 64–65 Stearn, 67 Stearn, 68 Stearn, William T. The life, times and achievements of John Lindley., in Stearn (1998) Stearn, William T., ed...
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    species. Many of these plants are listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. William Stearn (1911–2001) was one of the pre-eminent British...
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    in New South Wales". Telopea. 4 (1): 4. Retrieved 10 January 2024. William T. Stearn (1992). Botanical Latin. History, grammar, syntax, terminology and...
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    thus preceded his scientific binomial system. Linnaean authority William T. Stearn said: By the introduction of his binomial system of nomenclature,...
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    The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was an American investment bank, securities trading, and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 as part of the global financial...
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    Laurentii Salvii (Lars Salvius). (A facsimile with an introduction by William T. Stearn was published by the Ray Society in 1957). Antoine Laurent de Jussieu...
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    3. Stearn, William T. 1971. In Blunt, William. The Compleat Naturalist: a Life of Linnaeus. New York: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 0-7112-1841-2. Stearn, William...
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    (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 286. ISBN 9780958034180. William T. Stearn (1992). Botanical Latin. History, grammar, syntax, terminology and...
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    (1771) Carl Linnaeus Mantissa Plantarum, with an introduction by William T.Stearn, 6:137-588 Yang, Huan; You, Chong Juan; Tsui, Clement K. M.; Tembrock...
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