"Dr Andreas Dahl, a Swedish botanist who died in 1789 just as a new plant, long cultivated by the Aztecs, arrived in Europe. A colleague, reminded of Dahl's untidy hair by its shaggy blooms, named it dahlia"
In addition to JL Carr's dictionaries in the Pocket Book series, this volume by AJ Forrest describes 16 pages of items, activities, laws, practices, scientific units, plants etc. and the people they were named after.
"Mae West, b1893, an American film star, inspired by her busty opulence RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain called their inflatable life jackets Mae West's"
Forrest's Dictionary of Eponymists
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Pocket-sized at 13 x 9.5cm (5 x 3.5" in old money) and comprising 16 pages with a firm card cover. This little volume is just one in the series of Carr's Pocket Books; they hover between a greeting and a present and make a lasting alternative to a birthday card. In cold bedrooms, only one hand need suffer exposure. A distinguished novelist recommends them for reading in the bath and an ambassador claims they can be palmed from the cuff during tedious speeches or profitless sermons.Delivery Information
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