#David Mabberley

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Book 539

Arthur Harry Church: The Anatomy of Flowers (Art of Nature)

David Mabberley

Merrell Holberton / The Natural History Museum, London 2000

Scientist and naturalist Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937) was something of a contradiction. Entrenched in the Department of Botany at Oxford, Church was known to be the most knowledgeable, yet least traveled, botanist in Britain—an academic recluse who buried himself within his fascination and analysis of plants and flowers. However, his clinical and exacting nature belies the absolutely revolutionary work he produced. His botanical paintings, with specimens often shown in cross-section, are fresh, bold, striking, beautifully composed, and highly modernist in concept despite Church’s insistence that any artistic merit was a mere by-product of the science. So under appreciated is Church’s work that many of the paintings in this book were unpublished during his life and published here for the first time.

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travelling writing-desk

of Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (20 January 1760 – 17 March 1826), an Austrian botanical illustrator

'Bauer may have had the capacity to remember colours in the way that a musician remembers notes.' David Mabberley

[(Sydney 1904) © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.]

cred: paintingbynumbers.dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au/colour-code/ferdinand-bauer

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National Apple Day

Sour, sweet, bitter, or tangy apples come in as many flavors and textures as one can wish. It's likely that my favorite will always be the sour apple though.

The New Book of Apples Joan Morgan and Alison Richards

The Story of The Apple by David J. Mabberley and Barrie E. Juniper

Apples by Roger Yepsen

Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf

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An Evening With 500 Queer Scientists in Sydney Australia. 

Tonight was the night of the first (that we know) conference for queer scientists in Australia, created and organised by The 500 Queer Scientists team. For those that don’t know 500 Queer Scientists is a visibility campaign for LGBT people working in STEM, in which queer scientists share their self-submitted stories. 

This conference was a completely sold out event with well over 100 attendees ranging from general public to LGBT scientists and allies. There were five speakers ranging from PhD student to more experienced academics. 

Dr Alice Motion (@all_isee) who was hosting the panel and talks

Perry Beasley-Hall (@perry_b_h) spoke about her PhD research with cockroaches and about being a lesbian and women within science

Dr Adam Flew (@frewecologist) presented his talk on his research in sIlicon interactions with herbivorous insects and his experiences as a gay man travelling around the world

Dr Hervé Sauquet ‏(@hsauquet_rbgsyd) spoke about his research into bisexual flowering plants at the royal gardens in Sydney

Prof. Marie Herberstein (@MarieHerberstei) that talked about her research on sexual cannibalism in spiders and in encouraging the Macquarie University science departments to publicly support Mardi Gras and marriage equality years ago. 

Prof. David Mabberley lastly gave an powerful and emotional talk about the historical oppression queer scientists (and himself) faced only a few decades ago and the need to continue to push for equality and safety for lgbt people within STEM

[winsonsaw2003]

Looking for descendants of William Sydenham Ebden (1887-1951)

Looking for descendants of William Sydenham Ebden,Resident Councillor of Malacca,Malaysia from(20 Oct.1939-1941)..He was born 1887 in Kirkee,India.His parents was Edward James Ebden & Mary Ann Bullock.He was educated in Clifton College and later in Gonville & Caius College.His career:-

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> WW1 Service 1915-19 as 2nd Lt Shropshire Light Infantry. Wounded and POW Thessalonika. Attached to Colonial Secretary's Office 1924.

> Registrar of Supreme Court,Johor and First Magistrate of Johor Bharu in 1925,Assistant Adviser of Segamat,Johor in 1926,Assistant Treasurer of Penang in 1928,District Officer of Upper Perak in 1930,Commissioner of Lands,Straits Settlements in 1932-1935 & Interned Changi,Singapore in 1941-1946.He married to Nancy Claire Marshall 1918 in Dulwich Village,England.He died in 1951,Castletown.Their issue:-

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> i)Stella Ruth Ebden(1921-?)married Kenneth Hardaker.Her issue:-

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> ai)Helen Blanche Hardaker born in 1948.She married David John Mabberley.Her issue:-

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> bi)Laura Sophie Helen Mabberley.

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> bii)Marcus Rupert David Mabberley.

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> aii)Ingrid Anne Hardaker born in 1947.She married Jurgen Franz Johannes Heldt.Her issue:-

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> bi)Imogen Amelie Heldt.

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> bii)Miranda Natalie Heldt.

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> ii)William Maitland Ebden born in 1923.He married June Iris Merivale.His issue:-

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> ai)William Nicholas Collett Ebden (1953-1972).

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> aii)Edward Anthony Maitland Ebden(1955-?)married Janet E McWhir.His issue:-

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> bi)Thomas Louis W Ebden born in 2004.

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> iii)Una Nancy Ebden born in 1925.She married John Harry Forrester.

My email - winsonsaw20032000@yahoo.com

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Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never been seen or studied by Europeans. Upon his return, Banks commissioned more than 700 engravings between 1772 and 1784. Known collectively as Banks’ Florilegium, they are some of the most precise and exquisite examples of botanical illustration ever created. The Florilegium was never published in Banks’ lifetime, and it was not until 1990 that a complete set in color was issued in a boxed edition (limited to 100 copies) under the direction of the British Museum. The present selection is from these prints, directed by botanist David Mabberley, who has provided expert commentaries, with additional texts by art historian Mel Gooding, setting the works in context as a perfect conjunction of nature, science, and art. An afterword by Joe Studholme describes the history of the modern printing. (at Aesop's Attic Bookshop)

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Book 540

Ferdinand Bauer: The Nature of Discovery (Art of Nature)

David Mabberley

Merrell Holberton / The Natural History Museum, London 1999

The Austrian brothers Ferdinand and Franz Bauer have been called by some the greatest of all botanical painters. But where Franz (1758-1840) chose the security of a life-long job as painter at London’s Kew Gardens, Ferdinand (1760-1826) became a traveling painter, identifying and recording plant species of Greece and Asia Minor, leading to the publication of the most expansive botanical book ever produced—Flora graeca. In 1801, he was appointed to be the natural history painter on the Investigator expedition sent to map the coast of Australia. Over the course of a grueling four-year journey, Bauer worked prodigiously, producing an outstanding series of paintings, some of the thousands of which were eventually published in his book, Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae. This book, showing a sampling of his work throughout his career as a traveling artist, displays Bauer’s outstanding talent and incredible sensitivity to natural forms.