A Precocious Botanist

Archibald Menzies, Surgeon Botanist

Archibald Menzies, the 2nd son of a Highland gardener, was born in 1754. His father was the head gardener at Castle Menzies near Loch Tay, and the clan leader's distant relative. From him Archibald learnt respect for authority and the joy of growing things. In an atmosphere of secure prosperity young Archibald had a good practical and general education, working in the Castle gardens and grounds...

Joseph Hooker: the making of a botanist.

Joseph Hooker became one of the most influential botanists of his day. He is best remembered as a friend of Charles Darwin and an early advocate of natural selection. However, after returning to Britain from his first major voyage, Hooker spent years struggling to find a paid position that would allow him to pursue his studies of plant classification and distribution. As he worked to establish ...

Eli Ives—Practitioner, Teacher and Botanist *

Sir Joseph Banks: eighteenth-century explorer, botanist, and entrepreneur

books by herself and her collaborators, G. Scott Williamson and Lucy Crocker, The case for action (1931), Biologists in search of material (1938), and The Peckham experiment (1943). Set up in the 1930s, the Peckham centre housed under one roof an enomous range of social activities for the community, from carpentry and swimming to ante-natal guidance, in the service of two deeper scientific goal...

Precocious Puberty Associated with an Adrenal Tumor: A case report

Adrenocortical tumors (ACTs) are extremely rare in infants. Pediatric ACTs are therapeutic and diagnostic challenge because histological criteria for distinguishing benign from malignant tumors seen in adults are not always reliable in children .The aim of this report was to present clinical features, hormonal profile, and histopathological characteristics of an infant with Adrenal tumors. A...