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Issue: 007, 12/02/28 p. 111
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society
Category: Botany Medicine
Topic: [Collection of new plants from the island of St. Vincent`s; a new species of Cerinthe; a description of the sea Cocoa nut; remarks on the naturalization of cinnamon in France; the use of camphor as a sedative]
Person: BARCLAY, Dr. ILIFF, Mr. JOSY, Mr. BOURSAULT, M. SHORT, Dr. Michael
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Demonstration
Issue: 011, 29/02/28 p. 168
Heading: Botanical Curiosity
Category: Botany
Topic: [A means for making the Air Plant of China flower, found at Claremont by the gardener of Prince Leopold]
Source: Edward`s Botanical Register
Issue: 011, 29/02/28 p. 170-171
Heading: Botanical Researches in Siberia, on the Frontiers of China
Category: Botany
Topic: [Abstract of Ledebuhr`s account of his travels in Siberia, delivered at Dorpat University. 1,600 species of plants found, 500 unknown]
Person: LEDEBUHR, Professor MEYER, Dr. BUNGE, Dr.
Institution: University of Dorpat
Paper
Issue: 017, 21/03/28 p. 271
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [Proceedings. Admission of Fellows and Honorary Fellows. Some observations on Cinchona.]
Person: De JOMARD, M. STANHOPE, Earl JOHNSTON, Sir Alexander DE LA GARDE, Le Comte FLEMING, Dr. John ROUPELL, Dr. DUNLOP, Dr. AUSTRIA, Emperor of BRAZIL, Emperor of WURTEMBERG, King of READ, W. Harding FROST
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Issue: 018, 25/03/28 p. 286
Heading: Linnaean Society
Category: Botany
Topic: [Death of Sir James Edward Smith, botanist, on the seventeenth of March, 1828]
Person: SMITH, Sir James Edward
Institution: Linnaean Society
Obituary
Issue: 025, 18/04/28 p. 397
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: On the specific differences existing between Melaleuca Leucadendron, and M. Cajuputi -- [Description of the two different species of Melaleuca which had previously been thought of as varieties]. [Account of the preparation of an essence of Senna].
Person: MACGRIGOR, Sir James YOSY, Mr. ROXBURGH COLEBROOKE, H. T. SMITH, Sir James Edward MATON, Dr. FROST GIBBS, Robert CAMPBELL MORRIS, Mr.
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Paper, 11/14/28
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 471, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 1
Category: Botany Medicine Gynaecology
Topic: Ergot of Rye. [Publication of a brochure on the spur of rye, recommending its use in childbirth, to speed up a long labour]
Person: NEALE, Dr. Adam DE CANDOLLE LEVEILLE, M.
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 472, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 1
Category: Botany Ecology Plant Physiology
Topic: Age of Trees. [Ring counting only effective in cold countries]
Person: LINNAEUS
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 472, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Cedars of Lebanon. [Change of shape in winter]
Person: DE LA ROQUE, M.
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 472, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Floating Seeds. [Tillandsia]
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 477
Heading: Medico Botanical Society of London, Para 3
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [On the Heyemarada, or Vandellia diffusa of Linnaeus. Useful against intermittent fevers]
Person: HANCOCK, Dr. John YOSY, Mr.
Paper
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 477
Heading: Medico Botanical Society of London, Para 4
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [The poisoned arrows of the Bushmen of the Orange River]
Person: LESLIE, Louis (Assistant-surgeon of the 48th Regiment)
Paper
Issue: 031, 28/05/28 p. 489, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 1
Category: Botany
Topic: Direction of Roots. [Roots subject to gravity?]
Person: SPRENGEL VOLNEY
Issue: 031, 28/05/28 p. 489, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Limits of the Cultivation of useful Plants. [Latitudes at which commercially useful plants grow]
Issue: 032, 04/06/28 p. 505, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Botany, Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: The Martagon Lily. [The species of lily called the Turk`s cap is the hyacinth of the ancients, not the hyacinth, commonly so called]
Person: VIRGIL HUNT, Leigh MARTYN, Prof.
Issue: 033, 11/06/28 p. 521-522, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany
Topic: Extraordinary Climbing Plant. [The cogue of Chili which runs both up and down successive trees]
Issue: 033, 11/06/28 p. 522, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Evergreens. [All the trees of Abyssinia are evergreen]
Issue: 034, 18/06/28 p. 536, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany
Topic: Effects of Ivy on Trees. [It is wrong that ivy kills the trees it clings to]
Person: REPTON, Mr. EVELYN
Issue: 034, 18/06/28 p. 537, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Self-sown Seeds. [The immediate return of cultivated flowers to the wild]
Issue: 035, 25/06/28 p. 552
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [On the genus Laurus, from which Camphor is produced]
Person: FROST
Paper
Issue: 036, 02/07/28 p. 568, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany
Topic: The Rock, Rose, and the Grass of Parnassus. [Sensitivity of stamens]
Issue: 036, 02/07/28 p. 568-569, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Chemistry), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Singular Effects of Light and Darkness. [Cotyledon calycina is bitter-tasting in the morning, after imbibing oxygen overnight, and progessively loses its acidity in the light of day]
Institution: Loddige`s Nursery, Hackney
Issue: 036, 02/07/28 p. 569, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 3
Category: Botany
Topic: The Krubut or Great Flower of Lumatra. [The flower constitutes the whole plant]
Person: ARNOLD, Dr.
Issue: 037, 09/07/28 p. 587, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Migration of Plants. [Are plants always spread over the earth by crossing the sea, (in ships or by currents)?]
Issue: 037, 09/07/28 p. 587, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany
Topic: Structure of the Stigma
Issue: 038, 16/07/28 p. 603, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany Philosophy Science
Topic: Beauty of Flowers. [Does the study of botany detract from our pleasure in the beauty of flowers?]
Person: KENT, Miss
Source: Magazine of Natural History
Paper [extract]
Issue: 038, 16/07/28 p. 603, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Chemistry), Para 1
Category: Botany Toxicology
Topic: Poisoning of Plants. [Plants may be poisoned as may animals . Marcet made experiments with arsenic, kidney beans and roses]
Person: MARCET, M. (of Geneva)
Issue: 040, 30/07/28 p. 636, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany
Topic: Latin as good as English Names. [Apology for the use of Latin in classification]
Issue: 040, 30/07/28 p. 636, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Chemistry), Para 1
Category: Botany Toxicology
Topic: Experiments on Poisoning Plants. [Poisons of vegetable origin (opium, hemlock, digitalis, oxalic acid) found fatal to other plants]
Person: MARCET, M. (of Geneva)
Issue: 040, 30/07/28 p. 637
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: Remarks on the doubtful identity of Bonplandia trifoliata, of Willdenow, and Humboldt and Bonpland, and the Angostura, or Carony bark tree
Person: HANCOCK, Dr. John HUMBOLDT WILLDENOW, Prof. (of Berlin) TEREAS, Don Jose CANDOLLE, Prof. de
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Paper, 11/7/28
Issue: 041, 06/08/28 p. 652, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany Toxicology
Topic: Mushrooms, poisonous and innocent. [Experiments of the medical student Letellier, eating mushrooms and noting the effects]
Person: LETELLIER, M.
Issue: 041, 06/08/28 p. 652, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany
Topic: The Porcupine Pear. [The prickly pear of Columbia reputed to make darting attacks on European flesh]
Source: Recollections of a Service in Colombia
Issue: 041, 06/08/28 p. 652, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Useful Arts. (Gardening), Para 2
Category: Botany Horticulture
Topic: Love lies Bleeding, and Prince`s Feather. [A correspondent from Loudon`s Gardening Magazine advocates using the leaves of these plants like spinach. The Athenaeum correspondent doubts the advice: Amaranthus caudatus is a native of the East Indies and will not stand the frost]
Person: LOUDON
Source: Loudon`s Gardener`s Magazine
Issue: 042, 13/08/28 p. 669, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Roots accomodate themselves to Soils
Person: DU HAMEL
Source: Du Hamel`s Physique des Arbres, i.,82
Issue: 042, 13/08/28 p. 669-670, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany
Topic: Silver Weed. [A relative of Silver Weed (Potentilla anserina) has been introduced from Nepaul. The Nepaul plant is called Potentilla splendens]
Issue: 044, 27/08/28 p. 701, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany Folklore
Topic: The Dodder. [Parasitic behaviour of the cuscuta or dodder, as described in old books of herbal lore]
Person: THRELKELD
Source: Gerrard`s Herbal
Issue: 044, 27/08/28 p. 701, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: The Black Mangrove of the West Indies
Source: Brown`s Jamaica
Issue: 046, 10/09/28 p. 731, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany
Topic: Mosses. [Value of moss as foodstuff for animals]
Issue: 046, 10/09/28 p. 731, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: The Climbing Marcgravia of Jamaica
Issue: 048, 24/09/28 p. 765, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: The Xeranthemum, or Immortal Flower. [It does not wither when picked. Description of its seed dispersal from a flat receptacle]
Issue: 048, 24/09/28 p. 765-766, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany
Topic: Electro-Attraction of Leaves. [Electricity and plants]
Person: ASTIER, M.
Source: Magazine of Natural History
Issue: 049, 01/10/28 p. 781, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany
Topic: Australasian Botany. [Publication on the rare plants of New Holland]
Person: GUILLEMIN, M. BROWN BRODA DELESSERT
Source: Broda`s Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae Magazine of Natural History
Issue: 049, 01/10/28 p. 781, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany
Topic: Rare Plants in the North of Sweden
Person: LESTUDIUS, M.
Institution: Magazine of Natural History
Issue: 049, 01/10/28 p. 781, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Irritability of the Stigma in the Larch
Person: DON, David
Issue: 051, 15/10/28 p. 811, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Forest-Trees. [Height and girth of forest trees compared with trees in open situations]
Issue: 051, 15/10/28 p. 812, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 4
Category: Botany
Topic: Rival Systems of Linnaeus and Jussieu. [Observation of Miss Kent, that there is a rivalry between the "artificial" classificatory system of Linnaeus and "natural" method of Jussieu. The Athenaeum advocates knowledge of both]
Person: LINNAEUS JUSSIEU KENT, Miss BICHENO, Mr.
Source: Magazine of Natural History
Issue: 054, 05/11/28 p. 858-859
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [Members` business. Enumeration of plant collections presented to the Society: 600 plants of the Bavarian Alps; East Indian medicinal plants; plants from Jersey; mosses and cryptogamic plants; plants indigenous to England; specimen of the Christ`s Thorn; specimen of syrup of the visnea mocanera; hothouse seeds from Bologna; a chocolate plant from Prince Edward`s Island; a species of typha and a plant called vanguilla with medicinal properties promised by the Philosophical Society of British Guiana; collection of officinal plants; numerous printed works; medicinal plants from the Royal Gardens at Kew including Melaleuca Cajuputi, Canilla Alba, Anacardium Occidentale, Guiacum Officinale, Vanilla Aromatica, Laurus, Camphora, Etc.]
Person: MACGRIGOR, Sir James FROST, Mrs. MARTIUS, Prof. HORSFIELD, Dr. Thomas WOODFORD, James FAVEUE, Abraham BERTHELOT, Sabino BERTOLONI, Prof. READY, Colonel John FRIEND, Mr. STANHOPE, Earl AITON, Mr. FROST
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society Royal Asiatic Society Philosophical Society of British Guiana
, 28/11/1828
Issue: 054, 05/11/28 p. 860, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Fibrous and Bulbous Roots. [Tendency of some plants to alter their root structure in certain situations, causing some grasses to be described under different names]
Issue: 054, 05/11/28 p. 861, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 8
Category: Botany Literature
Topic: Dryden and Addison no Botanists. [Virgil`s description of the Italian Aster (Aster Amellus) wrongly translated by both Addison and Dryden, to misrepresent the flower]
Person: KENT, Miss DRYDEN ADDISON
Source: Magazine of Natural History Virgil: Georgics
Issue: 055, 12/11/28 p. 876, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Picturesque, Para 6
Category: Botany Trees
Topic: Spray of the Oak. [Minute description of the arrangement of branches on an oak]
Source: Gilpin: Forest Scenery
Issue: 056, 19/11/28 p. 892, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 7
Category: Botany Folklore
Topic: Language of Flowers. (The Athenaeum sends up a new work by Phillips on the symbolical, sentimental associations of flowers)
Source: Philipps: Floral Emblems
Issue: 056, 19/11/28 p. 892, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology Ecology
Topic: Dwarf Plants on Mountains. [Dobereiner believes that the smallness of plants on mountains is more to do with the thin air than the cold temperature]
Person: DOBEREINER, M.
Issue: 057, 26/11/28 p. 908, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Picturesque, Para 8
Category: Botany Trees
Topic: The Forest Oak. [The different colours and textures of the trunk of an oak, caused by mosses]
Source: Gilpin: Forest Scenery
Issue: 058, 03/12/28 p. 923, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Motion of the Sap in Trees
Person: KNIGHT DUTROCHET, M.
Institution: Horticultural Society
Issue: 058, 03/12/28 p. 924, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 9
Category: Botany Literature Medicine Bees
Topic: What is Starwort? [What is the plant called Starwort by Graham in his "British Georgics"? He recommends it as a remedy for sickly bees]
Source: Graham, British Geography Magazine of Natural History
Issue: 058, 03/12/28 p. 924, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Chemistry), Para 2
Category: Botany Horticulture Ecology
Topic: Effects of Snow and Rain on Vegetation. [Snow protects from the cold and rain is fertilizing]
Person: HASSENFRATZ, M.
Source: Journal d`Ecole Polytechnique, Cahier 4
Issue: 058, 03/12/28 p. 925
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London, Para 1-9
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [Specimen of Adowro root (cyperus articulatus) used for treating the "endemic fever of the West Indies" exhibited. Specimen of the true rhubarb exhibited. Communication read on ludive or succory (Cichorium Intybus) which is used in Russia to substitute for tea or coffee. Communication read on the "chocolate plant" or "blood-root" (Geum Canadense) of St Edward`s Isle, which is used as a tonic. Account read of the Angustura bark tree (Galipea officinalis). Numbers of fellows elected and honorary members admitted]
Person: STANHOPE, Earl BURNETT, William DREVER, Thomas GIBBS, Robert LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke BABINGTON, Dr. Benjamin Guy WALLICH, Dr. Nathaniel DON, David WILLOCK, Henry READY, Colonel John
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Papers And Exhibits, 11/11/28
Issue: 058, 03/12/28 p. 925
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London, Para 9-13
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [The first communication taking place at this meeting which is reported in the Athenaeum at any length is on the Mocan Tree (Visnea mocanera). This is followed by a communication on the germination of potatoes in a preserve of zinc. An informal account is given of an unnamed plant from the West Indies by General Stewart. Many presents are announced. A list of fellows elected given. Foreign members announced]
Person: MACGRIGOR, Sir James HANCOCK, Dr. John BERTHELOT, Sabino SHORT, Dr. Michael CURRIE, Donald STEWART, General
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Papers, 25/11/28
Issue: 059, 10/12/28 p. 928, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Picturesque, Para 8
Category: Botany Trees Literature
Topic: The Cowthorpe Oak. [The huge dimensions of a very old oak which features in Strutt`s book of tree etchings, Sylva Britannica. The tree does not seem much changed in 1828 from its description by Dr. Hunter in his "Notes on Evelyn", one hundred years earlier. A stanza of poetry which seems to fit the atmosphere and history of the tree is quoted anonymously]
Person: HUNTER EVELYN STRUTT, [George Jacob]
Source: Strutt: Sylva Britannica, 25
Issue: 059, 10/12/28 p. 939, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Mythological, Para 12
Category: Botany Folklore Religion
Topic: Caldron of Ceridwen. [The contents of the caldron of the Celtic goddess who is equivalent to Ceres or Venus are called "the liquor of science and inspiration". The plants are named]
Person: CERIDWEN CERES VENUS
Source: Owen`s Cambr. Biogr.
Issue: 060, 17/12/28 p. 955, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Animated Nature. (Zoophytology), Para 3
Category: Botany Biology Microbiology
Topic: All Nature alive. [Robert Brown has circulated a "brochure" privately, claiming that all material things "are composed of animated particles of a spherical form". The Athenaeum says that this is not an astonishing claim; the phenomenon is accounted for by the principles of electricity and a number of observers are already working in this area]
Person: ESSENBECK, Nees von DUTROCHET, M. TRINIUS RASPAIL BROWN, Robert
Issue: 060, 17/12/28 p. 956, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Proliferous Flowers. [Erysimum cheiranthoides and Veronica medea schrad -- variety phyllantha -- described by Courtois]
Person: ESSENBECK, Nees von COURTOIS KONING VAN HALL
Source: Bulletin des Sciences
Issue: 060, 17/12/28 p. 956, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany Occult Sciences
Topic: Algebraic Botany. [German botanists are creating a system of cabalistic characters for plants, similar to the mystic symbols Mons has introduced into the study of mineralogy]
Person: MONS, M.
Issue: 060, 17/12/28 p. 956, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany
Topic: Flora Belgica. [Work on flowers, arranged according to the Linnaean system]
Person: COURTOIS LE JEUNE
Issue: 060, 17/12/28 p. 956, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Tendency of Plants to approach the Light
Person: DECANDOLLE
Source: Memoires de la Soc. d`Arcueil
Issue: 061, 24/12/28 p. 971
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society of London
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: General Observations on the utility of Botany in Medicine, and on the best modes to be adopted to discover the medicinal properties of plants
Person: GRATELOUP, M.
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Paper, 9/12/28
Issue: 065, 21/01/29 p. 46, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 8
Category: Botany Literature Classical Literature
Topic: Flora Virgiliana. [A number of different attempts compared, to identify the plants mentioned by Virgil. The speculations of Tenore are given in detail]
Person: VIRGIL SPRENGEL MARTIN FEE, M. (of Paris) TENORE, (of Naples)
Source: Bulletin des Sciences
Issue: 065, 21/01/29 p. 46, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: New Sensitive Plant of Australia. [Parts of the flowers of stylidium move if touched. This must be the plant`s device for the dispersal of pollen]
Source: New South Wales Journal
Issue: 065, 21/01/29 p. 46, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-animated Nature. (Vegetable Geography), Para 2
Category: Botany Trees Ecology Climate
Topic: Plants of the Polar and Temperate Regions
Issue: 065, 21/01/29 p. 47, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 8
Category: Botany Literature Classical Literature
Topic: Flora Classica. [An anthology in preparation, of botanical references in classical literature]
Person: BILLERBECK, Dr. J.
Source: Annonc. Scient. de Gotting, p. 479
Issue: 066, 28/01/29 p. 62
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [Anniversary meeting of the society. Reports show an increase of 245 members, an addition of 100 volumes to the library and 7000 new plants to the society`s collection. Resignation of Sir James McGrigor as president. Election of council and officers. Address of the president, Earl Stanhope. Presentation of medals. Dr John Hancock receives the gold medal for his work on the Angostura bark-tree and the Vandellia diffusa. Professor Fresco Caldi receives the silver medal. Earl Stanhope reaffirms the objects of the society, calling for more research into indigenous plants as a substitute for expensive imported drugs]
Person: MACGRIGOR, Sir James STANHOPE, Earl SMITH, Sir James Edward THUNBERG, John Peter BOSE (late of Paris) CHORIS HANCOCK, Dr. John CALDI, Prof. Fresco
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society Linnaean Society Geographical Society, Paris
Speech, 16/1/29
Issue: 067, 04/02/29 p. 78, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 7
Category: Botany Physics Optics Light
Topic: Alpine Flowers. [Do the brilliant alpine flowers, in some sense take their colours from the intense blue sky?]
Issue: 067, 04/02/29 p. 78, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Perception in Plants. [Apparently evasive movements of a cucumber may be ascribed to the universal tendency of plants to turn to the light and do not represent a sensibility]
Issue: 067, 04/02/29 p. 79, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Useful Arts. (Agriculture), Para 1
Category: Agriculture Botany
Topic: Scots Farmer`s Weed-Fine. [There were once official weed inspectors to ride round Scottish farms and there was a fine of three shillings and fourpence, or a wedder sheep, for every "gule-gowan" (chrysanthemum segetum) found. A lighter fine of one penny is still charged at Cargill, Perthshire]
Source: Sir John Sinclair: Statistical Account of Cargill
Issue: 067, 04/02/29 p. 79
Heading: Varieties, Para 4
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: Medico-Botanical Society. [New members elected. Earl Stanhope, President, invested with the gold chain of office]
Person: NETHERLANDS, King of DENMARK, King of BERMUDEZ, Chevalier de Zea MAHON, Viscount POWIS, Earl STANHOPE, Earl
Issue: 067, 04/02/29 p. 79
Heading: Varieties, Para 7
Category: Botany Climate Pollution Horticulture
Topic: Taste and Utility. [The garden at Buckingham palace with orangeries and flower-gardens is designed as if Britain had a warm, southern climate. It also ignores the fact that many plants cannot stand the smoky atmosphere of London]
Person: NASH NORTH, Lord
Source: Hints and Observations respecting the Parks and Palaces, Etc
Issue: 071, 04/03/29 p. 141, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Chemistry), Para 1
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: Green Colour of Vegetables.[...]Hydrogen without light, and a small quantity of oxygen, is sufficient for vegetation
Person: HUMBOLDT HEDWIG
Issue: 071, 04/03/29 p. 141, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Vegetable Mechanics), Para 2
Category: Botany Ecology Philosophy Christian Religion
Topic: Mosses. [Their useful functions: to protect the roots of other plants in winter, to grow where nothing else can without impoverishing the soil, to convert watery habitats into "firm land" while purifying the water. To study them is to attend to "the infinitely little", one of two extremes between which Pascal says mankind is placed. The other is "the infinitely great" ]
Person: PASCAL
Issue: 071, 04/03/29 p. 143
Heading: Medico-Botanical Society
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: Observations on some of the medicinal plants of the Canaries, by Sabino Berthelot [and] the esculent nature of the root of Stachys palustris, by Joseph Houlton
Person: STANHOPE, Earl WILLIAMS, Dr. George BROUSSONET SAVINON, Dr. BERTHELOT, Sabino HOULTON, Joseph FROST ACTON, W. T.
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Papers, 24/03/29
Issue: 073, 18/03/29 p. 168
Category: Botany Medicine
Topic: [The Lobelia Inflata, a North American weed, has been found useful against asthma]
Person: CUTLER, Dr. ANDREW, Dr. (of Glasgow) ROBINSON
Issue: 079, 29/04/29 p. 271, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 2
Category: Botany Ecology
Topic: Love of Flowers. [The meaning of flowers and seasons, to express feeling]
Issue: 082, 20/05/29 p. 319, Section: Varieties
Heading: French Botanical Researches in Persia and India, Para 5
Category: Geography Botany Austria Hungary Transylvania Moldavia Little Tartary Caucasus Georgia Armenia Persia India
Topic: [The French expedition across Europe to India, to make a botanical garden at Pondicherry. Belanger`s journey took from 1825 to 1826 and resulted in vast collections of dried and living plants and seeds (also fish, birds, crustaceans and molluscs), extensive planting, written reports and curious archival material]
Person: BELANGER, M. WALLICH, Dr. Nathaniel
Institution: Museum of Natural History, Paris Societe Asiatique
Issue: 085, 10/06/29 p. 366
Heading: The Primary Parents of the Human Race
Category: Anthropology Morphology Botany Christian Religion
Topic: [It seems that different human races are varieties of the same species, just as single damask roses and double white roses originate from the same root. If this is the case, that all humans came from only two parents, then why are people scattered all over the earth? If there was more than one original pair, then there must have been many arks and many Noahs]
Person: ST. VINCENT, M. Bory de ROULIN, M.
Letter
Issue: 086, 17/06/29 p. 381, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Animated Nature. (Chromatology), Para 1
Category: Marine Biology Zoology Botany
Topic: Colour of Hydrophytes. [Vegetation taken from deep seas proves that plants may be intensely coloured without exposure to strong light. The phosphorescent glow of marine animals is also remarked upon, in evocative prose].
Person: HUMBOLDT BONPLAND ELLIS
Signed: ST. VINCENT, M. Bory
Issue: 086, 17/06/29 p. 382, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Animated Nature. (Dendrology), Para 2
Category: Botany Trees
Topic: Cedars of Lebanon in England. [Dimensions of notable old trees]
Person: CARNARVON, Lord UVEDALE, Dr.
Source: Library of Entertaining Knowledge - Trees
Issue: 086, 17/06/29 p. 382, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Animated Nature. (Xulonology), Para 3
Category: Botany Trees
Topic: Fancy Woods. [Accounts of: Zebra-wood, Coromandel-wood, Satin-wood, Sandal-wood, Amboyna-wood, Botany Bay Oak, Ebony, Acker-wood, Canary-wood, Purple-wood, Bird`s-eye maple, Snake-wood, Harewood, Calamander-wood]
Person: BROWNRIGG, Sir Robert [Late Governor of Ceylon]
Source: Library of Entertaining Knowledge - Trees
Issue: 088, 01/07/29 p. 412
Heading: Royal College of Physicians
Category: Medicine Infectious Diseases Yellow Fever Botany
Topic: [Tenth Conversazione. Report on the enquiry into an epidemic of yellow fever in Gibraltar. Extent. Source in a ship from the Havannah. Cordon of Spanish ports. Investigation into whether immunity follows one attack. At the same meeting, an exhibition of medicinal plants]
Person: HALFORD, Sir Henry MACMICHAEL, Dr. ILIFF, Mr.
Institution: Royal College of Physicians Colonial Department
Report
Issue: 095, 19/08/29 p. 523, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: Germination of Seeds in Mercury, Para 2
Category: Botany Plant Physiology Chemistry
Topic: [Pinot`s experiment shows that the radicle of various seeds, including that of latyrus odoratus, which have germinated in mercury, will penetrate the metal to the depth of ten lines [ten-twelfths of an inch]]
Person: PINOT, M.
Institution: Academie des Sciences
Paper, 27/07/1829
Issue: 096, 26/08/29 p. 539, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: Artificial Imitation of Plants, Para 11
Category: Botany Art
Topic: [Collection of artificial plants, made by an officer on the Isle of France, presented to the French Academy of Sciences]
Person: MOLARD, Baron Humbert de D`ARGENTELLE, M.
Institution: Academie des Sciences
Issue: 098, 09/09/29 p. 571, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: New Medicinal Drug, Para 5
Category: Medicine Botany
Topic: [Discovery of a black root, Kainca chiococca racemosa, known at Bahia as rair prela. It is purgative and diuretic and may be used in cases of dropsy. Caventou and Francois, who introduced it at the Royal Academy maintain, in oppostion to Braude, that it contains no emetin]
Person: CAVENTOU, M. FRANCOIS, M. BRAUDES, M.
Institution: Academie des Sciences
, 24/08/1829
Issue: 107, 11/11/29 p. 715, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: The Camel`s Thorn, Para 7
Category: Geography Africa Middle East Asia Botany Agriculture
Topic: [Arab method of cultivating water-melons by splitting the stem of the camel`s thorn plant and inserting a melon seed which becomes a parasite]
Person: MIGNAN
Source: Mignan`s Travels in Chaldaea
Issue: 108, 18/11/29 p. 731, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: Dahlias, Para 1
Category: Botany Horticulture Ecology
Topic: [Dahlias were introduced into Spain from Mexico, in 1787 and reached Paris in 1802. At first only hothouse flowers, they became more hardy]
Person: THOUIN, M.
Source: Annales du Museum d`Histoire Naturelle Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
Institution: Museum d`Histoire Naturelle
Issue: 108, 18/11/29 p. 731, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: The Laurel, Para 2
Category: Botany Horticulture Ecology
Topic: [The laurel was introduced into Britain in the seventeenth century. At first very delicate, it became more hardy]
Person: COLE
Source: Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
Issue: 111, 09/12/29 p. 779, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: Vegetation in Mercury Disproved, Para 5
Category: Botany Plant Physiology Chemistry
Topic: [A paragraph which answers one in Athenaeum Issue 95, p. 523, headed "Germination of Seeds in Mercury". Both paragraphs are reporting sittings of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris. Dutrochet claims to have performed the same experiments as Pinot on whether seeds will germinate in mercury and got different results, as did the investigative committee into the original experiment. Pinot is not named in the second paragraph]
Person: DUTROCHET, M. MIRBEL, M. de
Institution: Academie Royale, Paris
Paper, 16/11/1829
Issue: 118, 30/01/30 p. 62, Section: Scientific and Miscellaneous
Category: Botany Horticulture
Topic: [A Horticultural Society is about to be established for Devon and Cornwall]
Source: Exeter Flying Post
Institution: South Devon and Cornwall Horticultural Society
Issue: 118, 30/01/30 p. 63, Section: Scientific and Miscellaneous
Heading: Materia Medica of Sierra Leone, Para 7
Category: Medicine Botany Pharmacology
Topic: [A list of successful local remedies used in Sierra Leone is now in the possession of the Medico-Botanical Society]
Person: FROST
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Issue: 123, 06/03/30 p. 143
Heading: Structure of Leaves
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Topic: [How the leaves of underwater plants take in oxygen]
Person: BRONGNIART, M. A.
Issue: 130, 24/04/30 p. 254
Heading: The Weeping Ash
Category: Botany Agriculture Horticulture
Topic: The Duke of Devonshire has just tried the experiment of transplanting a tree of this species
Person: DEVONSHIRE, Duke of
Issue: 131, 01/05/30 p. 267
Heading: Irish Horticultural Society
Category: Agriculture Botany Horticulture
Topic: This society held their Spring Exhibition last week, in Dublin
Institution: Irish Horticultural Society
Issue: 131, 01/05/30 p. 268
Heading: Paris Chit-Chat
Category: Law Periodicals Communication Mathematics Geometry Astronomy Botany Trees
Topic: A New Censorship. [A miscellaneous column, only one item of which has a heading: 1. Printers in France serve as censors, refusing to print what might turn out to be libellous. 2. A copyright law for periodicals may shortly be introduced. 3. Poisson, who specializes in geometry, is a new foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin. So is Arago who represents France in astronomy. 4. One ninth of France is estimated to be forest]
Person: POISSON, M. LAPLACE ARAGO, M. VOLTA, M.
Source: Gazette Constitutionelle de l`Allier Revue Francaise Revue de Paris
Institution: Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin
Column
Issue: 132, 08/05/30 p. 282-283
Heading: Paris Academy of Sciences. Sitting of the 12th April
Category: Botany Trees Chemistry Icthyology Animal Physiology Entomology Textiles Steam Power
Topic: [1. Milk-tree found at Demerara. 2. Germination of the Nepenthe. 3. Properties of a Sal Gemma. 4. Influence of Water on the Respiration of Fishes. 5. The Bombyx of the ancients. 6. Annual volume of the Board of Longitude. 7. The difference of opinion between St. Hilaire and Cuvier on "the theory of analogy"]
Person: DELESSERT SMITH (of Edinburgh) HUMBOLDT ARNOT, M. WALLICH, Dr. Nathaniel ARAGO, M. DUMAS, M. BOUE, M. FLEURENS, M. LATREILLE SAINTE HILAIRE, Geoffroy CUVIER
Institution: Academie des Sciences East India Company Botanical Gardens, Calcutta Board of Longitude
Letter[s], 12/04/1830
Issue: 132, 08/05/30 p. 286, Section: Paris Chit-Chat
Heading: The Native Potato, Para 20
Category: Geography South America Agriculture Botany
Topic: [Extract of a letter sent to Humboldt on the discovery of a plant like the potato on the upper slopes of the volcano of Orizaba]
Person: SCHIEDE DEPPE HUMBOLDT
Letter
Issue: 137, 12/06/30 p. 361-362
Heading: Present State of Medicine in China. Berlin, March 20
Category: Medicine Botany Pharmacology Surgery China
Topic: [Letter signed "C." and marked "Smith", on the history and current practice of medicine in China. Information from Rehmaun of St. Petersburg, who gathered it "during his sojourn among the Mongols of that empire"]
Person: REHMAUN, Dr. NOITZIN SUANG FUNSI JANTZI BROWN
Institution: Royal Asiatic Society
Letter, 20/03/30
Signed: C.; Ed`s Mark: SMITH
Issue: 139, 26/06/30 p. 398
Category: Exploration Geography North Atlantic Ocean Iceland Botany Physics Magnetism Electromagnetism
Topic: [The Russian government will send Capt. Lutke on a North Atlantic expedition to observe the variations of the magnetic needle]
Person: LUTKE, Capt. MERTENS, Mr.
Institution: Imperial Academy of Sciences
Issue: 141, 10/07/30 p. 427
Heading: On the Natural Resources of Algiers. By G. de Hemso, late Consul-General of Sweden to the Regency of Tunis. To the Editor of the Athenaeum. London, June 1830
Category: Geography North Africa Algeria Mountains Geology Mineralogy Botany Agriculture Zoology Hunting Social Anthropology
Topic: [Letter to the Athenaeum from Smith containing extensive quotations from his friend De Hemso on Algiers. De Hemso`s account of Algiers is presented as fresh and original, observed at first hand, compared with "the thousand and one histories, descriptions and anecdotes, which temporary interest has heaped upon Algiers" and mostly taken from "Malte-Brun, Bruce, Pananti, and company"]
Person: MALTE-BRUN BRUCE PANANTI
Letter
Ed`s Mark: SMITH
Issue: 141, 10/07/30 p. 429
Heading: Age of Trees
Category: Botany Plant Physiology Trees Ecology
Topic: [The accuracy of counting rings when working out a tree`s age. The variation in the width of rings depends on climate. Fir-trees growing near the snow-line of the Alps have many rings close together in a thin stem]
Person: LINNAEUS
Ed`s Mark: PARKE
Issue: 141, 10/07/30 p. 430
Heading: New Food for Silk Worms, Para 13
Category: Entomology Botany Ecology Animal Husbandry Animal Produce
Topic: [According to Clara Girodin, silkworms can feed just as successfully on the leaves of Scorsonera as they can on white mulberry leaves]
Person: GIRODIN, Clara BOSC
Institution: Royal Society, Lille
Issue: 144, 31/07/30 p. 475-476, Section: Foreign Correspondence
Heading: Acerbi`s Tour in Egypt, 1829-1830. (Continued from p. 459)
Category: Geography North Africa Egypt Chemistry Water Medicine Pharmacology Zoology Botany Archaeology
Topic: [Chemical observations on the alkaline lakes of the valley of Natron. Meeting with a chemist, the son of D`Arcet. Visit to a plant for the refining of carbonate of soda, to be exported to Europe. The author`s collections of animals, plants and shells. The increasing difficulty of buying Egyptian antiquities in Egypt]
Person: D`ARCET CHAMPOLLION BASSI VIRGIL ENNIUS
Letter
Signed: ACERBI; Ed`s Mark: SMITH
Issue: 144, 31/07/30 p. 478
Heading: Interesting Discovery, Para 7
Category: Botany Trees Manufactures Engineering Ships Materials Testing
Topic: [An association at Lyons have discovered many new industrial uses for Linden bark]
Issue: 145, 07/08/30 p. 495
Category: Botany Trees
Topic: [Example of a 700-year-old linden tree in Belgium]
Source: Gazette Litteraire
Issue: 154, 09/10/30 p. 634-635
Heading: General Assembly of the Naturalists of Germany at Hamburgh
Category: Congresses Assemblies Science Natural History Medicine Botany Pharmacology
Topic: [The aims of the assembly are to introduce far-flung natural historians to one another. Qualifications for membership: belonging to the medical profession or studying natural history. The effects are that participants forget "all national jealousies in the cause of nature and science". Struwe claimed that Germany and Russia were pre-eminent in astronomy; England and France were least good at it. Wendt spoke on animal magnetism. Other subjects were: the tides, and coffee]
Person: OKEN, Dr. BARTELS, M. STRUWE, Prof. WENDT, Prof. OERSTED, Prof. WILLBRANDT, Prof. PFAFF, Prof. SIMON, Dr. STERNBERG, Count LICHTENSTEIN JACQUIN, Prof. LITTROW, M. JAHN
Source: Hamburgh Reporter The Times Isis
Institution: General Assembly of the Naturalists of Germany
Ed`s Mark: SMITH
Issue: 154, 09/10/30 p. 638
Heading: A Scientific Harvest, Para 11
Category: Botany Classification Mineralogy Zoology Entomology
Topic: [A quotation from Von Humboldt on Hemprich and Ehrenberg`s travels.] "They collected as if collecting alone had been the object of their pursuits..." [Numbers and types of specimens]
Person: HUMBOLDT HEMPRICH EHRENBERG
Institution: Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin
Ed`s Mark: SMITH
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Reviews
Issue: 012, 04/03/28 p. 184
Heading: Notices of English Books
Category: Medicine Botany
Title: Observations on the Properties and Effects of the Expressed Oil of the Seed of Croton Tiglium; together with the Botanical History, and a correct coloured Engraving of the Plant
Author: FROST, John
Attribution: Director of the Medico-Botanical Society of London; Lecturer on Botany at St. Thomas`s Hospital
Institution: Medico-Botanical Society
Issue: 022, 08/04/28 p. 342
Category: Medicine Botany
Title: Flora Medica. Numbers 1 to 6
Author: ANON
Issue: 046, 10/09/28 p. 726
Category: Medicine Botany
Title: The Flora Medica for September. [Number 11]
Issue: 082, 20/05/29 p. 306-308
Heading: Journal of an Embassy to Ava
Category: Geography Burma Palaeontology Botany Social Anthropology
Title: Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava, in the Year 1827. With an Appendix, containing a Description of Fossil Remains, by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift
Author: CRAWFURD, John
Attribution: F. R. S.; F. L. S.; F. G. S.
Issue: 084, 03/06/29 p. 343
Heading: Botany
Category: Botany
Title: An Encyclopaedia of Plants; comprising the Description, Specific Character, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the Plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain; combining all the Advantages of a Linnaean and Jussieuean Species Plantarum, an Historia Plantarum, a Grammar of Botany, and a Dictionary of Botany and Vegetable Culture
Author: LOUDON, J. C.
Issue: 095, 19/08/29 p. 516
Category: Botany Plant Physiology
Title: An Introduction to Systematical and Physiological Botany: illustrated with explanatory Engravings
Author: CASTLE, Thomas
Attribution: F.L.S.; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons; Author of "Lexicon Pharmaceuticum"; Author of "The Manual of Surgery"
Issue: 099, 16/09/29 p. 575
Heading: Fruits
Category: Botany Agriculture Ecology Geography
Title: The Library of Entertaining Knowledge. [Part V.] Volume II.--Part II. Vegetable Substances: Fruits
Institution: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Issue: 108, 18/11/29 p. 718-720
Heading: Southern Africa
Category: Geography Southern Africa Botany Agriculture
Title: Four Years in Southern Africa
Author: ROSE, Lieut. Cowper
Attribution: Royal Engineers
Issue: 109, 25/11/29 p. 740
Heading: Botany
Category: Botany Philosophy Of Science Literature
Title: Rare or Remarkable Phaenogamous Plants collected in South Kent; with Descriptive Notices and Observations
Author: SMITH, Gerard Edwards
Attribution: Of St. John`s College, Oxford
Institution: University of Oxford
Issue: 109, 25/11/29 p. 742
Category: Medicine Botany
Title: Introduction to Medical Botany
Author: CASTLE, Thomas
Attribution: F. L. S.; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
Issue: 125, 20/03/30 p. 168
Category: Medicine Botany Health Dietetics Pharmacology
Title: A Practical Treatise on General or Partial Debility, Etc.; and on the most effectual means of preventing and curing Organic Diseases, Etc. by Diet, Exercise, and the Round-leaf Cornel, where a tonic remedy is necessary
Author: ROBINSON, S. H.
Attribution: M. D.
Institution: Royal College of Physicians
Issue: 125, 20/03/30 p. 168
Category: Medicine Botany Respiratory System Pharmacology
Title: A Practical Treatise on the Anti-Asthmatic properties of the Bladder-podded Lobelia, Etc.; to which is added an account of the Chyrayita Herb, lately introduced as a remedy for nervous and gouty Indigestion
Author: REECE, Dr. Richard
Attribution: M. D.
Institution: Royal College of Physicians
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