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unusual facts about Bentham's taxonomic arrangement of Adenanthos


Bentham's taxonomic arrangement of Adenanthos

The first known botanical collection of Adenanthos was made by Archibald Menzies during the September 1791 visit of the Vancouver Expedition to King George Sound on the south coast of Western Australia.


Banksia ser. Ochraceae

B. benthamiana (Bentham's Banksia) was designated the type species.

Bentham Science Publishers

In 2007, the Bentham Open Science journal, The Open Chemical Physics Journal, published a study contending dust from the World Trade Center attacks contained "active nanothermite".

In a review of Bentham Open for The Charleston Advisor, Jeffrey Beall noted that "in many cases, Bentham Open journals publish articles that no legitimate peer-review journal would accept, and unconventional and nonconformist ideas are being presented in some of them as legitimate science."

Bentham, North Yorkshire

The present building was built in the 1870s by Richard Norman Shaw, and includes an ancient coffin slab dating from about 1340; the Kirkbeck Stone dating from the 17th century; a 15th-century bell hanging in the porch; and a reredos in Caen stone with marble panels.

The old organ, which is no longer playable, was built by William Hill of London as a "house organ" for Walker Joy, a prosperous oil merchant in Leeds; his brother designed a hydraulic engine to pump the bellows, making it the first ever to be blown by mechanical power.

Carceral archipelago

In 1791, Jeremy Bentham drew up architectural plans (it was his brother, Samuel Bentham who was the true architect; Jeremy Bentham was the legal and philosophical brains behind the project) that took the logic of plague control and transformed it into a plan for controlling people in prisons, workshops, schools and other institutions.

Decimus Burton

Bentham Hill House, Southborough, Kent (1830–2) a small country house in Deveyesque mode for Alexandre Pott, now converted into flats

Indigo FM

The coverage area for Indigo FM includes towns and villages in the South Lakes, North Lancashire & North Yorkshire area including: Kirkby Lonsdale, Ingleton, Sedbergh, Casterton, Barbon, Clapham, Bentham and Caton.

Punkcast

Punkcast was started in September 1997 to cover the visit to NYC of punk band One Way System, in order to demonstrate the internet's broadcast potential to the band's manager John Bentham who had run Jettisoundz, a major creator/distributor of punk video in the UK.

Simon Goodrich

In 1796 he was appointed draughtsman in the office of Sir Samuel Bentham, Inspector General of Naval Works, and in 1799 was promoted to the post of Mechanist and Bentham's deputy.

Stegnosperma

Turner et al. suggest that S. halimifolium Bentham and S. watsonii D.J. Rogers are actually the same species, observing that specimens from the gulf coast of Sonora have intermediate characteristics.

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

The Bentham Project is preparing a new definitive edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, jurist, economist, political theorist and social reformer.


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