24/7 Pet Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Garden_Edinburgh

   The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ( RBGE) ( Scottish Gaelic: Gàrradh Luibh-eòlais Rìoghail Dhùn Èideann) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland ...

3. William Ramsay McNab - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ramsay_McNab

   William McNab (1780–1848) was employed in the Royal Gardens between 1801 and 1810. He originally worked under William Kerr (foreman) and William Townsend Aiton (curator). It was when William Kerr left his role to move to China that William McNab was promoted to foreman. William McNab was also employed at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh between ...

4. Isaac Bayley Balfour - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bayley_Balfour

   Founding the botanical journal ‘Annals of Botany’ and championing the use of surgical dressings of dried sphagnum moss in the First World War. Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian ...

5. Gardening in Scotland - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardening_in_Scotland

   The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was founded in 1670, as a physic garden by combining the collections of doctor Robert Sibbald and botanist Andrew Balfour as a source of medicines. A physic garden was founded at the University of Glasgow in 1703.

6. Novel inspired by Edinburgh’s botanic gardens wins ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/novel-inspired-edinburgh-botanic...

   The opening scenes of The Fair Botanists were inspired by a real event which took place between 1820 and 1823 when the collection of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was painstakingly moved from ...

7. Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius_Keeper_of_the_Royal...

   The Royal status of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is intrinsically linked to the issue of a Royal Warrant to the first Intendant of the Gardens in 1699. Since that date, the appointment of each new Director of RBGE has required the assent of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom , the appointee receiving the unique title Regius ...