British Botanists

Proposals by Czechoslovak Botanists

The botanist effect: counties with maximal species richness tend to be home to universities and botanists

In a classic paper in this journal, C. Barry Cox argued that the apparent taxonomic diversity of the Holarctic Kingdom had been ‘artificially inflated’ because, he noted, quoting Good (1974), botanists have given ‘exaggerated importance’ to that part of the world (Cox, 2001). Cox gives no explicit reason why this may be the case. Conversely, Lomolino (2004, p. 296) has expressed serious concern...

Herbalists and medical botanists in mid-nineteenth-century Britain with special reference to Bristol.

A SURVEY of the providers of medical treatment in mid-nineteenth-century Bristol, based mainly on data from the 1851 census, showed the herbalists and their allies as a small but definable group.' They tended to live in the poorest parts of the city and in this, as well as in many other characteristics, they were situated at the opposite social pole to the opulent physicians. Their patients mus...

british encroachments in seistan

seistan was one of the important ancient urban centres in south eastern persia. the ruins of the city show the prosperity and fertility of this city to the extent that a british civil officer considered it as the ancient london of asia. this article attempts to describe the enormous latent wealth of this ancient city which made it important for strategic, political and commercial reasons. due t...

British Columbia.

Affum as p a r t of a Commission and t h e B r i t i s h Columbia Round Table o n t h e Environment and t h e Economy. I t is p a r t of a series of background reports d e a l i n g with i s s u e s which Round T a b l e committees considered i m p o r t a n t t o t h e development of a sustainable development strategy i n B r i t i s h Columbia. and i s intended t o provide information which w...