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Joseph Burtt Davy (7 Machị na afọ 1870 Findern, Derbyshire - 20 Ọgọst na afọ 1940 Birmingham) bụ onye Quaker botanist na agrostologist. Ọ bụrụ onye nlekọta mbụ nke oké ọhịa Herbarium (FHO) na Ụlọ Ọrụ Oke Ọhịa nke Alaeze Ukwu mgbe e guzobere ya na 1924 n'okpuru Directorship nke Prọfesọ Robert Scott Troup . [1]

Ọ guru na ụlọ akwụkwọ na Ilkley nke West Yorkshire. Na afọ 1891, ọ banyere Kew Gardens dị ka onye enyemaka teknụzụ, ọ hapụrụ obere oge ka nke ahụ gasịrị gaa United States ebe ọ debanyere aha na ngalaba botany na Mahadum California. N'ebe a, ọ gụrụ ọrụ ugbo site na 1893-96 wee were ọkwa nke onye na-ahụ maka ihe ọkụkụ na Ọdụ Nnwale Ọrụ Ugbo na California n'etiti afọ 1896-1901, na-akọwa Cyperaceae na Gramineae maka A Flora of Western Middle California nke Willis Linn Jepson. N'ebe a ka ọ zutere onye ga-abụ nwunye ya, Alice Bolton (1863-1953), onye California.

Davy de banyere ọrụ ọsụ ụzọ nke e bipụtara na afọ 1903, "Stock Ranges of Northwestern California: Ihe ndị e dere gbasara ahịhịa na ebe a na-eri nri na ọnọdụ ebe a na-eri nri" ebe ọ malitere njem ịchọpụta ihe fọdụrụ na ala ahịhịa mbụ dị n'akụkụ ugwu ọdịda anyanwụ nke steeti ahụ, ma gbaa ndị na-azụ anụ ajụjụ ọnụ iji chọpụta usoro nke iwebata ihe ndị dị iche iche na ala ahịhịhịa ahụ mere. Akụkọ ahụ gụnyere mpaghara Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte, na akụkụ Siskiyou dị n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ nke California na Oregon Railroad. Mpaghara akụkọ ahụ dị n'akụkụ ọwụwa anyanwụ site na Ugwu Coast Range dị n'ime na n'akụkụ ọdịda anyanwụ site na Oké Osimiri Pacific, ma kpuchie ọdọ mmiri niile nke osimiri Eel, Mad, Trinity, Lower Klamath, na Smith na obere iyi ndị dị n'ụsọ oké osimiri n'ebe ugwu nke Osimiri Grualala. N'ebe ndịda, gụnyere Lake County na ókèala ndịda nke Mendocino County, si otú a na-abanye na ọdọ mmiri Clear Lake na isi mmiri nke Osimiri Russian.

Na mbido afọ 1903, a weputara ya dị ka onye na-arụ ọrụ ihe ọkụkụ na onye na-amụ banyere ọrụ ugbo na Ngalaba Ọrụ Ugbo nke Transvaal nke e guzobere ọhụrụ. Burtt Davy egbughị oge n'ịmalite nchịkọta nke osisi Transvaal, usoro nke o nwetara ihe ọmụma dị nso banyere isiokwu ahụ. Ihe atụ ndị mbụ a sitere na Meintjieskop, Irene na njem gaa n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ Transvaal - na oge ọ nara ezumike nká na 1913, ihe atụ ndị ọ chịkọtara dị 14,000.

Nhọpụta Burtt Davy mere ka e guzobe Ngalaba Osisi. Nke a mechara bụrụ Ụlọ Ọrụ Nnyocha Osisi (BRI) wee bụrụ Ụlọ Ọrụ Nkà na Ụba Mba (NBI) na 1989 mgbe e jikọtara ya na Ubi Osisi Mba. N'agbanyeghị na afọ juru ya, ọchịchị ndị ọchịchị batara ọzọ na 2004 wee gbanwee aha ya ka ọ bụrụ Ụlọ Ọrụ Nkà na Ụba Mba Ndị Dị na South Africa (SANBI).

Otu n'ime nnukwu mmasị Burtt Davy bụ isiokwu nke mmeghe osisi, okwu ọ na-etinye uche dị ukwuu na ya, na-ebubata osisi na mkpụrụ site n'akụkụ ụwa niile. Ọ bụ ya na-ahụ maka iwebata ihe ọkụkụ, teff, yana ahịhịa ahịhịhịa Kikuyu. O nyere aka guzobe ebe a na-azụ ọka na Vereeniging ma gbaa arụkwaghịm obere oge tupu mbipụta nke ọrụ ya zuru oke na ọka na 1914.

Ọ kwagara n'ugbo nke ya 'Burttholm' dị nso na Vereeniging, ebe ya na Hon. Hugh Wyndham guzobere mmekọrịta, na-azụlite ma na-akụ mkpụrụ ọrụ ugbo na Ehi Hereford. Ụlọ ọrụ ahụ nwere ọganihu ma Burtt Davy nwere ike ịla ezumike nká na England na 1919, laghachi Kew ma rụọ ọrụ na A Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Transvaal na Swaziland, Nkebi 1 pụtara na 1926 na Nkebi 2 na 1932. Ọ bụ nwunye ya, Alice Bolton Davy mepụtara ihe osise maka ọrụ taxonomic a bara uru.

E nyere ya Ph.D. site na Cambridge na 1925 wee were ọkwa onye nkuzi na botany nke oké ọhịa na Imperial Forestry Institute na Oxford. N'ebe a ka ọ malitere ịrụ ọrụ na usoro Forest Trees and Timbers of the British Empire. E nyere ya D.Phil. nzere site na Mahadum na 1937.

A na-echeta ya na aha ụdị Burttdavya na ọtụtụ aha pụrụ iche gụnyere Aloe davyana, Acacia davyi, Hibiscus burtt-davyi na Ficus burtt-devyi. E guzobere bench nkume na Shotover Country Park obere oge ka ọ nwụsịrị iji cheta ya.[2] A na-egosi onye ọkà mmụta ihe ọkụkụ a site na mkpirisi nke onye edemede Burtt Davy mgbe ọ na-ezo aka na aha ihe ọkụkụ.[3]

Akwụkwọ

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  • Stock Ranges of Northwestern California: Ihe edeturu na ahịhịa na ahịhi na ọnọdụ ahịhịhịa - Joseph Burtt Davy, 1903.
  • Aha obodo na nke osisi nke ụfọdụ osisi South Africa - Burtt Davy, Transvaal Agricultural Journal, Eprel 1904
  • Ferns nke Transvaal - Burtt Davy & V. G. Crawley, Report of the SA Association for the Advancement of Science, 1909
  • Ndepụta mbụ nke osisi na-agbasa okooko osisi na Ferns nke Transvaal na Swaziland - Burtt Davy & Mrs R. Leendertz Pott, Annals of the Tvl. Ebe Ngosi Ihe Mgbe Ochie, 1912
  • Mkpụrụ ọka: Akụkọ ihe mere eme, Ịkọ, Nchịkwa na Ojiji ya na Ntuziaka Pụrụ Iche na South Africa - Burtt Davy, London, 1914
  • Akwụkwọ ntuziaka nke osisi ndị na-agbasa okooko osisi na Ferns nke Transvaal na Swaziland - Burtt Davy: Longmans, Green & Co., 1932

Edemsibia

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  1. Sciences. Home Page – BRAHMS Online. herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2017-10-27.
  2. "A SCIENTIST'S BEQUESTS", Yorkshire Evening Post, 12 February 1941.
  3. Brummitt (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 

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