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See also:NUTTALL, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1786-1859) , See also:English botanist and ornithologist, who lived and worked in See also:America from 18o8 until 1842, was See also:born at See also:Settle in See also:Yorkshire on the 5th of See also:January 1786, and spent some years as a journeyman printer in See also:England. Soon after going to the See also:United States he was induced by See also:Professor B. S. See also:Barton (1766-1815) to apply himself to the study of the See also:plants of that See also:country. In 1825-1834 he was See also:curator or the botanic gardens of Harvard university. In 1834 he crossed the See also:continent to the Pacific Ocean, and visited the Hawaiian Islands. Some See also:property having been See also:left him in England on See also:condition of his residing on it during See also:part of each See also:year, he left America in 1842, and did not again revisit it except for a See also:short 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 in 1852. He died at St Helens, See also:Lancashire, on the loth of
See also:September 1859.
Almost the whole of his scientific See also:work was done in the United States, and his published See also:works appeared there. The more important of these are, The Genera of' orth See also:American Plants, and a See also:Catalogue of the See also:Species to the year 1817 (2 vols., 1818) ; See also:Journal . of Travels into the See also:Arkansas Territory during the year 1819 (1821); The See also:North American Sylva: Trees not described by F. A. Michaux (3 vols., 1842-1849) ; See also:Manual of the See also:Ornithology of the United States and of See also:Canada (1832 and 1834); and numerous papers in American scientific See also:periodicals.
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