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But he also managed to botanize on Madagascar and the Cape.

Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.

It is likely that she accompanied him to botanize on Madagascar and Bourbon Island in 1770-1772.

He led Saturday afternoon trips around the Baltimore area to botanize and instruct others interested in plant identification.

On the return voyage to France, he remained behind at the island of Mauritius, in order to botanize there and on Madagascar.

Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed" Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun.

In the 1850s, he started to botanize in Saxony, including several excursions with Ludwig Schneider and Gustav Maass.

As soon as she and Commerson landed on shore to botanize, Baret was immediately surrounded by Tahitians who cried out that she was a woman.

He had asked permission to botanize the island in the environs of Coupang, and Mr. Wanjon not only agreed but had offered to provide servants to accompany him on his expeditions.

It was not necessary to go to Oxford or Cambridge, deductive temples run by the Church of England, in order to botanize, collect fossils, experiment with chemicals, electricity, steam, optics and much more.

They reached Santa Cruz in Tenerife on 28 April; this was intended as a rest stop and opportunity to botanize, but ended in a drunken brawl in which several officers were thrown into the bay or beaten.

More loft than was needed, more power . . . the one he had rented (using money from Coyote) allowed him to drift down in the mornings to help botanize in the forests, or walk by the streams; then float back up through the afternoons, up and up and up and up.

Marriage, its sorrow and woe, its fragile joys, filled his mind and he was not altogether surprised when Martin, speaking in a low, confidential tone, told him that he had long been attached to the daughter of a parson, a young lady whose brother he used to botanize with when they were at the university together.

From the early 1800's, a battle of wits and endurance was waged between explorers and diplomats, who plunged into these half-forgotten wastes to win allies for the Raj or the czar, to seek better blood stock, to botanize, to settle cartographical disputes, to measure skulls or to prove the genesis of Aryan civilization.

About the same time, Mr. Sparrman, who had imprudently gone out alone to botanize, was assaulted by two men, who stripped him of every thing which he had about him, excepting his trowsers, and struck him again and again with his own hanger, though happily without doing him any harm.

He also found time to botanise on Madagascar and the Cape.

She had sent volunteers out to botanise, and invited me to coffee in the Harris Hotel.