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[ Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:28 ]

Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.

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Education

Summary:
* Collecting:

Writing:

* Legacy: HUH.

Memorium:

Main:
A chronology of Gray’s life follows:
Born Nov. 18, 1810 in Sauquot, N. Y. (Paris, Utica, Oneida CO)
Studied at Clinton Grammar School under Orlando Kirkland, 1823-1824
Studied at Fairfield Academy one year, probably 1824-1825
Studied at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Fairfield, N.Y., starting autumn 1826; received degree of doctor of medicine in January 1831
Began exchange of plants with John Torrey, 1830
Taught science at Utica Gymnasium, May-July 1832, Jan-July 1833, Jan-July(?) 1834
Collected for Torrey, summer 1833; worked for him in his house, fall 1833
Taught at Hamilton College, summer 1834
Visited Philadelphia with Torrey and collected in New Jersey for him, Sept. 1834; returned to Torrey’s house
Worked on Elements of Botany in New York; finished April 1836
Made librarian of New York Lyceum of Natural History, Feb. or March 1836
Planned to participate in U.S. south seas expedition but delays led him to withdraw
Appointed professor of botany at newly formed University of Michigan, 1838
Traveled to Europe to buy books for Univ. of Michigan and to visit herbaria, Nov. 1838- Nov. 1839
Began correspondence with George Engelmann, 1840
Began a new textbook, 1841
Appointed professor at Harvard, 1842
Finished Manual, Dec. 1847
First volume of Genera of the Plants of the U.S., appeared 1848
Engaged to Jane Lathrop Loring, May 1847; married May 4, 1848
June 1848 wedding trip to Washington, D.C.
Went to Europe, June 1850 - Sept. 1851
Botanical Textbook revised 1850, 1853, 1858
To Europe, late summer 1855, for 21 days
Second edition of Manual appeared 1856
First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, 1857
How Plants Grow, 1858
Involved in defense of Darwin starting 1859
Field, Forest and Garden Botany, about 1867
Went to Europe, Sept. 1868- Nov. 1869
Went to California and came back by way of Dubuque, June - Aug., 1872
How Plants Behave, 1872
Gift of C.S. Sargent and H.H. Hunnewell allowed him to retire to work on North American Flora, 1873
Traveled to southern U.S., March 1875-April 1875
Darwiniana, 1876
Traveled to southern Alleghenies, Aug. 1876 - Sept. 1876
Traveled to California, July 1877 - Sept. 1877, with Hooker
Traveled to southern Allehenies, June 1879
Traveled to Europe, Sept. 1880- Oct. 1881; received LLD’s from Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh
Traveled to Montreal, August 1882 for meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science
Traveled to St. Louis, May 1884; to Virginia, Sept. 1884
Traveled to Mexico and southern California, Feb. - May 1885
Received vase in honor of his 75th birthday, Nov. 18, 1885
Traveled to Europe, April - Oct. 1887
Died Jan. 30, 1888

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[ Thursday, March 06, 2008 14:31 ]

Legacy Journal: Seasoning, Conventions, and Climate Blowback

Section:
FrontPage

Summary:
Question: Which Latin American country has the best record for the largest reduction in its homicide numbers over the part 10 years?

* Seasoning is a good thing. It is part of the process of self protection, sustainability, and adaptation

The Democratic Convention in August is shaping up as a mid summer event not to be missed. The media, Denver, and the media will all benefit.

* The oceanographic spector has returned from the deep to haunt Al Gore.

Main:
: Experience is part of the seasoning process that allows one to quickly winnow wheat from chafe. Speed of processing is part of the process of pattern recognition which is often subconscious, almost automatic and appears to short cut the ponderous gymnastics of conscious analysis, rationalizations, processing and endless reality testing.

Leaders in sports, medicine, business the military, and politics are frequently called on to use their core gut instincts when making time critical decisions.

:: Meanwhile, Democratic primary news will have may ups and downs, surges and bad weeks, twists and turns. A senior Obama foreign affairs adviser with a Harvard Law and Kennedy School pedigree, Irishlady, Samantha Powell, has resigned, left the campaign trail, and put on the plane back to Boston after an intemperate, off-the-record characterization of Hillary Clinton to a Scots newspaper reporter. Words have consequences. Meanwhile, the Clinton camp has “Ken Starred” Obama.

::: Roger Revelle, a student Gore mentor is quoted prior to his death,as believing that with technology, like the “Green Revolution” it is possible to greatly expand global agriculture and food production. Truth to be told, the 96% of Americans who do not make their daily bread as farmers and ranchers seem shocked by the 6-12 months of rising world market price of grain, meat, eggs, dairy and seed oil based food. Even malt barley for brewing beer is in short supply. At last report, Nigeria, Iceland, and Indonesia are not wheat growing countries. The facts are: export oriented manufacturing, agriculture, food processing, storage, and distribution, construction, transportation, and cold weather consumers will be disproportional disadvantaged by may of this current proposals fix the presumed problem by “georegulate” of the proported global thermostat to the “right temperature” and to ‘climate control,’ or ‘climate engineering’ the atmosphere to the “right carbon dioxide” million parts per volume (mppv).

Meanwhile, there is continuing confusion as to the interplay between weather and climate. One problem is the choice of words of words to categorize a poorly understood, complex, dynamic, and chaotic process. For example, the earth has been around for roughly 4 billion years, the oceans for almost as long, and homo sapiens for 10, 000 years. In the latest interation, be are still daunted by the challenge of understanding the biochemical workings of estimated 60 trillion cells in the human body. Modern climate science research is just beginning. So step back, take a deep breath and chill out before consigning of life as we know it to the fires of Hell.

For many living in western upstate New York, this week-end’s snow fall, temperature drop,heating fuel bills, and food market sticker shock ave only been partially blunted by the good news on the sports page. The RIT hockey team continues win and advance in NCAA tournament play.

Answer: Colombia, the second most populous Spanish speaking country in the world.

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