Showing posts with label botany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botany. Show all posts




This logo appears at http://www.google.co.uk today.




The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in
southwest London, England. The director is Professor Stephen D. Hopper, who
succeeded Professor Sir Peter Crane. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is also the
name of the organisation that runs Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place gardens in
Sussex. It is an internationally important botanical research and education
institution with 700 staff and an income of £56 million for the year ended 31
March 2008, as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost 2 million visits in
that year. The gardens are a non-departmental public body sponsored by the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Created in 1759.

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Lucky me, I bumped into this Japanese site of Google today. You can catch this beautiful logo on display at http://www.google.co.jp if you are as lucky as me. If you've failed to get there in time, don't worry, I'm here to help you. You can see this beautiful logo on display here. After all, this is what this blog is all about ;)


Tomitaro Makino (Japanese: 牧野富太郎, Makino Tomitarō, April 24, 1862 - January 18,1957) was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany", as he was one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus. [1] His research resulted in documenting 50,000 specimens, many of which are represented in his Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan. Despite having dropped out of grammar school, he would eventually attain a Doctor of Science degree, and his birthday is remembered as Botany Day in Japan.

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