Railway Technology

Botany Rail Duplication, New South Wales

Botany rail duplication involves the duplication of 2.9km of freight track of the Botany line rail corridor between Mascot and Botany in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Botany rail duplication will ...
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Aboriginal plant collectors : botanists and Australian aboriginal people in the nineteenth century / Philip A. Clarke

Early explorers and aboriginal guides -- Settlers and Australian plants -- Making plant names -- George Caley in New South Wales -- Allan Cunningham and the mapping of Australia -- Resident plant ...
Nature

An Introduction to the Study of Botany, with a special chapter on some Australian Natural Orders

THE authors of this little work are both teachers of Natural Science in the University of Melbourne and it is specially intended for the use of students in Australia. With this object in view it would ...
Nature

The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group: its Zoology, Botany, Ethnology, and General Structure, based on Collections made by Mr Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW

THE Pacific Ocean is divided into basins by a series of island chains and submarine ridges. The most conspicuous chain begins in Malaysia, crosses New Guinea, and, sweeping round parallel to the ...
Reuters

Australia's Orica to set aside A$115 million extra for Botany clean-up: regulator

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Orica Ltd, the world's largest maker of commercial explosives, is set to increase environmental provisions by A$114.7 million ($86 million) to cover the costs of cleaning up ...