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Andrew Sinclair (botanist), the Glossary

Andrew Sinclair (13 April 1794 – 26 March 1861) was a British surgeon who was notable for his botanical collections.^[1]

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Colonial Secretaries of New Zealand
Deaths by drowning in New Zealand
Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853)
New Zealand naturalists

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Aoraki / Mount Cook

Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand.

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Asteraceae

Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales.

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Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Bay of Islands

The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Capital of New Zealand

Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Colonial Secretary of New Zealand

The colonial secretary of New Zealand was an office established in 1840 and abolished in 1907. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and colonial Secretary of New Zealand are colonial Secretaries of New Zealand.

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Convict ship

A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.

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Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Edward Belcher

Admiral Sir Edward Belcher (27 February 1799 – 18 March 1877) was a British naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer.

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Frederick William Beechey

Frederick William Beechey (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer.

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George A. Walker Arnott

George Arnott Walker Arnott of Arlary (6 February 1799 – 17 April 1868) was a Scottish botanist.

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George Grey

Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and George Grey are colonial Secretaries of New Zealand and members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853).

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Governor-General of New Zealand

The governor-general of New Zealand (Te kāwana tianara o Aotearoa) is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand, currently King Charles III.

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Hôpital de la Charité

Hôpital de la Charité ("Charity Hospital") was a hospital in Paris founded by the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in the 17th century.

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Henry Sewell

Henry Sewell (7 September 1807 – 14 May 1879) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and Henry Sewell are colonial Secretaries of New Zealand and members of the New Zealand Legislative Council.

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James Clark Ross

Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of the Arctic, participating in two expeditions led by his uncle John Ross, and four led by William Edward Parry, and, in particular, for his own Antarctic expedition from 1839 to 1843.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.

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Julius von Haast

Sir Johann Franz Julius von Haast (1 May 1822 – 16 August 1887) was a German-born New Zealand explorer, geologist, and founder of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch.

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Lyttelton Times

The Lyttelton Times was the first newspaper in Canterbury, New Zealand, publishing the first edition in January 1851.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Meryta sinclairii

Meryta sinclairii, the puka or pukanui, is a large-leaved evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand that grows to about 8 m tall, with the distinctly tropical appearance typical of the genus.

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Mesopotamia Station

Mesopotamia Station is a high-country station in New Zealand's South Island.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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New Zealand Legislative Council

The New Zealand Legislative Council (lit) was the upper house of the General Assembly of New Zealand between 1853 and 1951.

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Paisley, Renfrewshire

Paisley (Paisley; Pàislig) is a large town situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Prime Minister of New Zealand

The prime minister of New Zealand (Te pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand.

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Rangitata River

The Rangitata River is one of the braided rivers of the Canterbury Plains in southern New Zealand.

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Responsible government

Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.

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Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.

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Robert FitzRoy

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and Robert FitzRoy are members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853).

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Robert Wynyard

Major General Robert Henry Wynyard (24 December 1802 – 6 January 1864) was a British Army officer and New Zealand colonial administrator, serving at various times as Lieutenant Governor of New Ulster Province, Administrator of the Government, and was the first Superintendent of Auckland Province. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and Robert Wynyard are members of the New Zealand Legislative Council.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh).

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Sinclairia

Sinclairia is a genus of Latin American plants in the tribe Liabeae within the family Asteraceae.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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Sponge

Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.

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Stewart Island

Stewart Island (Rakiura, 'glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura, formerly New Leinster) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Thomas Gore Browne

Colonel Sir Thomas Robert Gore Browne (3 July 1807 – 17 April 1887) was a British colonial administrator, who was Governor of St Helena, Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Tasmania and Governor of Bermuda.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Wairau Affray

The Wairau Affray of 17 June 1843, also called the Wairau Massacre and the Wairau Incident, was the first serious clash of arms between British settlers and Māori in New Zealand after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the only one to take place in the South Island.

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William Colenso

William Colenso (17 November 1811 – 10 February 1899) FRS was a Cornish Christian missionary to New Zealand, and also a printer, botanist, explorer and politician. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and William Colenso are new Zealand naturalists.

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William Hobson

Captain William Hobson (26 September 1792 – 10 September 1842) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy, who served as the first Governor of New Zealand. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and William Hobson are members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853).

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William Jackson Hooker

Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden.

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Willoughby Shortland

Commander Willoughby Shortland (30 September 1804 – 7 October 1869) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. Andrew Sinclair (botanist) and Willoughby Shortland are colonial Secretaries of New Zealand and members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853).

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Zoology

ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.

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Zoophyte

A zoophyte (animal-plant) is an obsolete term for an organism thought to be intermediate between animals and plants, or an animal with plant-like attributes or appearance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sinclair_(botanist)

Also known as A.Sinclair.

, Wairau Affray, William Colenso, William Hobson, William Jackson Hooker, Willoughby Shortland, Zoology, Zoophyte.

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See also

Colonial Secretaries of New Zealand

Deaths by drowning in New Zealand

Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853)

New Zealand naturalists

References