In 1938 Evans joined the staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he was Economic Botanist ( 1938 1954 ) and, from 1941 to 1943, acting Director.
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In 1937 Myers was appointed economic botanist to the government of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, his task being to survey the economic possibilities of the southernmost province of Equatoria with a view to its future agricultural development.
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It was named after the Russian geneticist, economic botanist, and plant geographer, Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov . It is found primarily in high mountain areas on shale or rocky ground in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.
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"" Before Cheryll Williams s unique and tireless foray into the ethnopharmacology of Australia ( which is comprised of a total of 4 hefty volumes ), one would have had a difficult time finding similar narrative-style writing on the subject . . . . It may not be the type of systematic treatment of a continent s medicinal flora that economic botanists are used to, but in many ways it might be better . ""
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They received the Distinguished Economic Botanist Award . " " The work of Brent Berlin and Elois Ann Berlin over the last four decades has led to major theoretical advances in cognitive and medical Ethnobiology, " said Rick Stepp, a member of the council of the Society for Economic Botany . " ( 2008 ) Brent Berlin has generated information and new techniques of analyzing data that has influenced many well established members of the field and up and coming students who strive to be an asset to the social sciences.
