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See also:TOURNEFORT, See also:JOSEPH PITTON DE (1656-1708) , See also:French botanist, was See also:born at See also:Aix, in See also:Provence, on the 5th of See also:June 1656. He studied in the See also:convent of the See also:Jesuits at Aix, and was destined for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, but the See also:death of his See also:father See also:left him See also:free to follow his botanical inclinations. After two years' See also:collecting, he studied See also:medicine at See also:Montpellier, but was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany at the Jardin See also:des Plantes in 1683. By the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order he travelled through western See also:Europe, where he made extensive collections, and subsequently spent three years in See also:Greece and See also:Asia See also:Minor (1700-1702). Of this See also:journey a description in a See also:series of letters was posthumously published in 3 vols. (Relation d'un voyage du See also:Levant, See also:Lyons, 1717). His See also:principal See also:work is entitled Institutiones rei herbariae (3 vols. See also:Paris, 1700), and upon this rests chiefly his claims to remembrance as one of the most eminent of the systematic botanists who prepared the way for See also:Linnaeus. He died on the 28th of See also:December 1708.
End of Article: TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE (1656-1708)
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