Ernest David Marquand

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Ernest David Marquand (1848–1918) was an English botanist, perhaps best known as the author of Flora of Guernsey. His son was the noted botanist Cecil Victor Boley Marquand.

Cecil Victor Boley Marquand (1897–1943) was a prominent English botanist.

Ernest Marquand was educated in New York, and worked mostly in herbaria, notably at the British Museum. He also collected in the Channel Islands and Germany, often with Airy Shaw.

The British Museum, in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It was the first public national museum in the world.

The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and some smaller islands. They are considered the remnants of the Duchy of Normandy and, although they are not part of the United Kingdom, the UK is responsible for the defence and international relations of the islands. The Crown dependencies are not members of the Commonwealth of Nations or of the European Union. They have a total population of about 164,541, and the bailiwicks' capitals, Saint Helier and Saint Peter Port, have populations of 33,500 and 18,207, respectively. The total area of the islands is 198 km².

Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw was a notable English botanist and classicist.

Selective publications

1897. Additional Guernsey fungi. 7 pp.
1891. The cryptogamic flora of Kelvedon and its neighbourhood, together with a few coast species
1891. The flora of Guernsey. 23 pp.
1897. The fungi of Guernsey. 19 pp.
1901. Flora of Guernsey and the Lesser Channel Islands; Namely Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and the Adjacent Islets. with Five Maps. Ed. General Books. 388 pp. Republished 2009 ISBN 1150215461
1904. The spiders of Guernsey. 17 pp.
1905. The Guernsey dialect and its plant names. 17 pp.
1908. The Guernsey dialect names of birds, fishes, insects, &c. 20 pp.

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The standard author abbreviation Marquand is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

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The linguistic situation of the Bailiwick of Guernsey is quite similar to that of Jersey, the other Bailiwick in the Channel Islands. English is the official language, French is used for administration, there are several varieties of Norman language used by a minority of the population, and Portuguese is spoken by immigrants in the workforce.

The Bailiwick of Guernsey includes the island of Guernsey and other islands such as Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, and Lihou. Each parish was established, probably in the 11th century, as a religious area, each having its parish church. Administratively each parish is now administered by an elected council known as a Douzaine.

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This page list topics related to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, including Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and smaller islands.

.gg is the country code top-level domain for the crown dependency of Guernsey, including the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou and Lihou. The domain is administered by Island Networks, who also administer the .je domain for neighbouring territory Jersey.

This is a list of books in the English language which deal with Guernsey and its geography, history, inhabitants, culture, biota, etc.

The Alderney Steam Packet Company provided shipping services between Alderney and Sark, Guernsey and Cherbourg from 1897 to 1931.

The first postal service took place using mail sent with captains of packet ships, using agents in the England and in the islands for the end delivery. The cost was normally 3d. The first pillar boxes in Britain were introduced in the Channel Islands as an experiment in 1852, to collect mail for the Royal Mail packet boats. The oldest pillar box in use in the British Isles is in Guernsey.

The Bréhon Tower is accessible only by boat and sits on Bréhon rock, an island in the Little Russell channel about 1.5 km northeast of St Peter Port, Guernsey, between the port and the islands of Herm and Jethou. Thomas Charles de Putron (1806–1869) built the oval tower of granite from Herm, completing the work in 1857.

Archaeology is promoted in Jersey by the Société Jersiaise and by Jersey Heritage. Promotion in the Bailiwick of Guernsey being undertaken by La Société Guernesiaise, Guernsey Museums, the Alderney Society with World War II work also undertaken by Festung Guernsey.

References

↑ IPNI. Marquand.

Marqaund, E. D. (Republished 2009). Flora of Guernsey and the Lesser Channel Islands: Namely Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, And The Adjacent Islets. With Five Maps. 524 pages. Nabu Press. ISBN 9781175905475

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[1] IPNI. Marquand.