Makers of British botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists

By

Oliver, Francis Wall, 1864-

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Cambridge, University press, 1913

Notes

Includes a course of ten lectures delivered in 1911 in the Botanical department of University college, London.

Contents: Introduction.- Robert Morison and John Ray, by S.H. Vines.- Nehemiah Grew, by Agnes Arber.- Stephen Hales, by F. Darwin.- John Hill, by T.G. Hill.- Robert Brown, by J.B. Farmer.- Sir William Hooker, by F.O. Bower.- John Stevens Henslow, by G. Henslow.- John Lindley, by F. Keeble.- William Griffith, by W.H. Lang.- Arthur Henfrey, by F.W. Oliver.- William Henry Harvey, by R.L. Praeger.- Miles Joseph Berkeley, by G. Massee.- Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, by W.B. Bottomley.- William Crawford Williamson, by D.H. Scott.- Harry Marshall Ward, by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer.- A sketch of the professors of botany in Edinburgh from 1670 until 1887, by I.B. Balfour.- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, by F.O. Bower.

Subjects

Biography , Botany , History , Science

Call Number

QK26 .O6 1913 BOTA

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.23314