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Bowstring (medicine) and Chamberlain, Charles Joseph (sh)


Bowstring (medicine)


bowstring


1. The string of a bow.

2. A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders. Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends.

<botany> Bowstring hemp, the tenacious fibre of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Africa, from which bowstrings are made.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Chamberlain, Charles Joseph (sh)




born Feb. 23, 1863, Sullivan, Ohio, U.S.
died Feb. 5, 1943, Chicago, Ill.

U.S. botanist.

His research into the structure and life cycles of primitive plants (cycads) enabled him to suggest a course of evolutionary development for the egg and embryo of seed plants (spermatophytes) and to speculate about a cycad origin for flowering plants (angiosperms). He organized and directed the botanical laboratories at the University of Chicago (1897-1931), where, with plants collected in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Cuba, he created the world's foremost collection of living cycads.


Charles Chamberlain, 1925

By courtesy of the Harshberger Collection, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh