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See also:MICHAUA, See also:ANDRE (1746-1802) , See also:French botanist and traveller, was See also:born at See also:Versailles on the 7th of See also:March 1746. In 1779 he spent some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time botanizing in See also:England, and in 178o he explored See also:Auvergne, the See also:Pyrenees and the See also:north of See also:Spain. In 1782 he was sent by the French See also:government on a botanical See also:mission to See also:Persia. His See also:journey began unfavourably, as he was robbed by See also:Arabs of all his equipment except his books; but he gained influential support in Persia, having cured the shah of a dangerous illness. After two years he returned to See also:France with a See also:fine See also:herbarium, and also introduced numerous Eastern See also:plants into the botanic gardens of France. In 1785 he was sent by the French government to North See also:America, and travelled with his son See also:Francois Andre (1770–1855) through See also:Canada,
Nova See also:Scotia and the See also:United States. On his return to France in 1797 he was shipwrecked and lost most of his collections. In x800 he went to See also:Madagascar to investigate the See also:flora of that See also:island, and died there on the 16th of See also:November 1802. His See also:work as a botanist was chiefly done in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and he added largely to what was previously known of the See also:botany of the See also:East and of America.
He wrote two valuable See also:works on North See also:American plants—the Histoire See also:des chenes de l'Amerique septentrionale (18o1), with 36 plates, and the Flora Boreali-Americana (2 vols., 1803), with 51 plates. His son Francois published a Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amerique septentrionale (3 vols., 1810-1813), with 156 plates, of which an See also:English See also:translation appeared in 1817-1819 as The North American Sylva.
End of Article: MICHAUA, ANDRE (1746-1802)
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