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unusual facts about Botany, New South Wales


Wool and Basil Workers' Federation of Australia

The Wool and Basil Workers Union was involved in a demarcation dispute with the Australian Textile Workers' Union in 1913 over work done at Botany woollen mills.


21540 Itthipanyanan

The asteroid is named for Thai student Suksun Itthipanyanan due to his second place finish at the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with his experiment on the 'Dehiscence and dispersion of the popping pod Ruellia tuberosa L.' His second place finish allowed his group to be recognized by Intel ISEF for an outstanding interdisciplinary science project, winning the naming rights for the asteroid.

Abercrombie Lawson

After a year as assistant in botany Lawson spent 1901 at the University of Chicago with Professors John Merle Coulter and Charles Joseph Chamberlain in the new Hull laboratories and was awarded a Ph.D. (1901).

Acianthella sublesta

Acianthella sublesta is a member of the Acianthella ("Elf Orchids"), which is a small genus of tropical ground orchids previously included in Acianthus but distinguished "by tiny green flowers on long thin ovaries, sepals of similar shape and size, lacking apical clubs, narrow petals and no basal glands on the labellum."

Ampelography

Ampelography (ἄμπελος, "vine" + γράφος, 'writing') is the field of botany concerned with the identification and classification of grapevines, Vitis spp. Traditionally this has been done by comparing the shape and colour of the vine leaves and grape berries; more recently the study of vines has been revolutionised by DNA fingerprinting.

Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée

He later became an instructor at teaching hospitals, firstly in Lille in 1825 then Strasbourg in 1832, when he was promoted to M.D. and professor of botany.

Auskick

The AFL has used the Auskick program the introduce Australian rules football into schools and communities around the country to increase the AFL's profile in areas that traditionally support other football codes such as New South Wales and Queensland.

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Australian Plague Locust Commission

With 19 staff members at its headquarters in Canberra and field offices in Narromine, Broken Hill and Longreach, the Commission is funded half by the Commonwealth government and half by the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.

Ben Fixter

Ben currently plays with the Charles Sturt University Football Club in the Farrer Football League, a semi-professional football league based in the Riverina region of New South Wales.

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus

Having finished his studies at Leiden, he went to Paris, where, under the instruction of Sebastien Vaillant (1669–1722), Jacob Winslow (1669–1760) and others, he devoted himself especially to anatomy and botany.

Charles Edward Moss

Albert Charles Seward, Professor of Botany at Cambridge and a Syndic at the Press, supported Moss, but both eventually reluctantly accepted the Press's preferences.

Charles James Melrose

Melrose Park in New South Wales and Melrose Park in South Australia are both suburbs named after him, as well as James Melrose Road, which travels along the southern boundary of Adelaide Airport.

Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville

In 1811 he moved to Valognes (Manche), pursuing botanical field research and the nascent field of geology, and searching out ancient written materials that cast light on local history, while he undertook, from 1814 onwards, to compile a pioneering inventory of some four or five hundred churches of La Manche (Noell 2005); some of these materials were published as Voyage archéologique dans la Manche (1818–1820).

Clarke brothers

Thomas (1840?-1867) and John Clarke (1846?-1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales responsible for a series of high-profile robberies and killings in the late 19th century so notorious that they led to the embedding of the Felons' Apprehension Act (1866), a law that introduced the concept of outlawry and authorised citizens to kill criminals on sight.

Cortinarius vanduzerensis

A common name for the species is the "pointed Cortinarius", while the specific epithet vanduzerensis refers to the H.B. van Duzer Forest where the species was originally collected.

Dennis Charter

Charter began his music industry career in 1967 working at live band club venues in Melbourne such as Sebastian's and Berties and writing for Go-Set Go-Set magazine before establishing live music venues and promoting concerts of his own around Melbourne and throughout country regions of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia.

Diadema palmeri

The species has also been found in other sub-tropical regions around the South Pacific at greater depths, including New Zealand's Kermadec Islands, and Australia's lower east coast - off Danger Point to Montague Island, New South Wales (at about 200 m), Lord Howe Island and the Norfolk Island Ridge.

Division of Hume

It extends from Cowra in the north to Wee Jasper in the south and parts of the Southern Highlands from Picton and Wilton in the east to Young and Cootamundra in the west.

Drosera falconeri

Isotype specimens, those that are duplicates of the holotype, were distributed to several herbaria, including those at the University of North Carolina, the New York Botanical Garden, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and the Queensland Herbarium.

Escort Way

Escort Way is a New South Wales state arterial road running from the western end of the Northern Distributor Road in Orange to Eugowra, where it becomes Eugowra-Forbes Road.

Finley High School

Finley High School is a school with 486 students, located in Finley in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

Grevillea striata

In New South Wales, a tree still stands which bears an inscription in memory of a member of Charles Sturt's expedition in 1845.

Gustav Hegi

Gustav Hegi (13 November 1876 in Rickenbach, Canton of Zürich - 23 April 1932 in Goldbach, Canton of Zürich) was a Swiss botanist.

Hadronyche formidabilis

Hadronyche formidabilis, the northern tree funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider found in Queensland and New South Wales.

HMAS Hawkesbury

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Hawkesbury after the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.

Hygrophorus bakerensis

The specific epithet bakerensis refers to Mount Baker, a volcano in the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, where the mushroom was first collected.

James Motley

He worked as an engineer and manager (at Tewgoed (or 'Terrgoed') Colliery at Cwmafan); then underground surveyor to William Chambers of Llanelli; and finally, at Abercrave colliery, iron works, iron mines, and limestone quarries while maintaining an active interest in natural history, especially botany (he left a herbarium at the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea), and folklore.

Jim Jones at Botany Bay

# Geoffrey Grigson (editor), The Penguin Book of Ballads (1975), 96, "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (1 text)

John Eddowes Bowman the Elder

His education was only that of a grammar school, but he was a bookish boy, and got from his father a taste for botany, and from his friend Joseph Hunter, then a lad at Sheffield, a fondness for genealogy.

John Scouler

In 1834, he was appointed professor of mineralogy, and subsequently of geology, zoology, and botany, to the Royal Dublin Society, a post he held until his retirement on a pension in 1854, when he returned to Glasgow.

John Towill Rutt

Concern for the reformers Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe Palmer and William Skirving led him to visit them as convicts on board the hulks, when awaiting transportation, and he sent papers and pamphlets to them in New South Wales.

Journal of Natural History

The journal was formed by the merger of the Magazine of Natural History (1828–1840) and the Annals of Natural History (1838–1840; previously the Magazine of Zoology and Botany, 1836–1838) and Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History).

Kielvale, New South Wales

Kielvale is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

In 1766, the Genevan Romantic and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau met Bentinck, admired her knowledge of botany despite his general belief that women could not be scientific, and offered his services as her "herborist" (plant collector).

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich is a systemic Roman Catholic secondary school for girls', located in Woolwich, a Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Marshall Rosen

Marshall Frederick Rosen, born 17 September 1948, in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is a former cricket player for New South Wales, and a member of the NSW Cricket Association Board.

Martín Sarmiento

He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including Literature, Medicine, Botany, Ethnography, History, Theology, Linguistics, etc.

Mogo

:For the town of the same name in New South Wales, Australia, see Mogo, New South Wales.

Murrumbidgee District

The Murrumbidgee District was a district (also called a squatting district, pastoral district or grazing district) used in New South Wales in the nineteenth century to refer to the land between the Murrumbidgee River and Murray River, that is now mostly known as the Riverina region.

Nix v. Hedden

Botanically, a tomato is a fruit because it is a seed-bearing structure growing from the flowering part of a plant.

Paul Carpenter Standley

Paul Carpenter Standley (1884 in Avalon, Missouri – June 2, 1963 Tegucigalpa, Honduras) was an American botanist.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1986, covering the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Rumex acetosella

From the 1950s, the New South Wales Soil Conservation Service undertook an extensive rehabilitation program for the vegetation of the Carruthers PeakMount Twynam area, which was in dire need of growth after a century of grazing.

Ruth McColl

Ruth Stephanie McColl AO (born 1950) is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy.

Ryde Bridge

The Ryde Bridge, which is in fact two bridges, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that crosses the Parramatta River, linking the suburb of Ryde in Sydney's Northern Suburbs to the suburb of Rhodes in Sydney's Inner West.

Samuel A'Court Ashe

After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).

Sir Walter Buffalo Turf

Sir Walter Premium Lawn Turf is a variety of Australian-bred soft-leaf Buffalo Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) first developed in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

South Australian wine

Located in south central Australia, South Australia is bordered by the four other mainland states, (Western Australia to the west, Queensland to the north east, New South Wales to the east, Victoria to the south east), the Northern Territory to the north, and the Great Australian Bight forms the region's southern coastline.

Tenterfield Oration

The town of Tenterfield suffered from the disunited administration of the States, as it was distant from the New South Wales state capital of Sydney and rather closer to commercial centres across the border in Queensland.

Utricularia regia

The authors placed the new species into Peter Taylor's section Psyllosperma, which has subsequently been merged with section Foliosa based on molecular phylogenetics.


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