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Subjects term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
Fagaceae
  • A family of trees and shrubshaving the staminate flowers in cymose heads or drooping aments and pistillate flowers with an urn-shaped to oblong perianth that occur singly or in clusters and are succeeded by one-seeded nuts
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Exhibitions 1 0
Ethnology
  • Here, with appropriate local subdivision, are entered works on the discipline of ethnology, and works on the origin, distribution, and characteristics of the elements of the population of a particular region or country. Theoretical works on the concept of groups of people who are bound together by common ties of ancestry and culture are entered under [Ethnic groups.] Works on the subjective sense of belonging to an individual ethnic group are entered under [Ethnicity.] General works on racial, religious, ethnic, or other minority groups are entered under [Minorities.]
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Ethnic Groups

Use for: Ethnic identities, Peoples (Ethnic groups)

  • Here are entered theoretical works on the concept of groups of people who are bound together by common ties of ancestry and culture. Works on the subjective sense of belonging to an individual ethnic group are entered under [Ethnicity.] Works on the discipline of ethnology, and works on the origin, distribution, and characteristics of the elements of the population of a particular region or country are entered under [Ethnology,] with appropriate local subdivision. General works on racial, religious, ethnic, or other minority groups are entered under [Minorities.]
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Eritrichium
  • A genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.
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Ericaceae (1)
  • A family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family. Ericaceae is made up mostly of shrubs and small trees, and its members are widely distributed, extending into the subarctic and along mountain chains through the tropics.
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Elgin Botanic Garden, New York
  • The Elgin Botanic Garden, established in 1801 in New York City by Dr. David Hosack (1769–1835), was a systematic arrangement of plants for scientific and pedagogical purposes. It served as a garden for teaching botany and materia medica at both the medical school of Columbia College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. It was located in the area that is now midtown Manhattan.
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elephant
  • a thickset, usually extremely large, nearly hairless, herbivorous mammal (family Elephantidae, the elephant family) that has a snout elongated into a muscular trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed especially in the male into long ivory tusks.
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East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalist Society 1 0
dye plants
  • Natural dyes. Colours extracted from plants.
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