Makers of British Botany. A Collection of Biogi^aphies 

 by living botanists. Edited by F. ]V. Oliver. 



Demy 8vo. pp. viii + 332. With frontispiece, 26 plates and a text-figure. 



Price (-)S. net. 



Publishers' Note 



The present volume represents in somewhat expanded 

 form a course of lectures arranged by the Board of Studies in 

 Botany of the University of London and delivered during the 

 early part of 191 1 in the Botanical Department of University 

 College, London. The ten lectures comprised in the course 

 were delivered by various botanists, the lecturer in each case 

 being either a worker in the same field as, or in some way 

 having a special qualification to deal with, his allotted subject. 

 The seventeen chapters forming the book include these 

 lectures and seven additional chapters. 



CONTENTS 



Introduction — Robert Morison 1620-1683 and John Ray 1627-1705, by 

 Sydney Howard Vines — Nehemiah Grew 1641-1712, by Agnes Arber — ■ 

 Stephen Hales 1677-1761, by Sir Francis Darwin — John Hill 1716-1775, by 

 T. G. Hill — Robert Brown 1773-1858, by J. B. Farmer — Sir William Hooker 

 1785-1865, by F. O. Bower — John Stevens Henslow 1796-1861, by George 

 Henslow — John Lindley 1799— 1865, by Frederick Keeble — ^\'ilham Griffith 

 1810-1845, by W. H. Lang — Arthur Henfrey 1S19-1859, by F. W. Oliver — 

 William Henry Harvey 1811-1866, by R. Lloyd Praeger — Miles Joseph 

 Berkeley 1803-1889, by George Massee — Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert 1817— 

 1901, by W. B. Bottomley — William Crawford Williamson 1816--1895, by 

 Dukinfield H. Scott — Harry Marshall Ward 1854-1906, by Sir William 

 Thiselton-Dyer — A sketch of the Professors of Botany in Edinburgh from 

 1670 until 1887, by Isaac Bayley Balfour — Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817- 

 191 1, by F. O. Bower — Index. 



Aberdeen Journal. — No important aspect of the development of botanical 

 science is omitted ; systematic botany, anatomy, physiology, palaeobotany, 

 nuclearcytology, and ecology are each given in proper historical setting, 



and the survey is both instructive and stimulating This is a book which 



experienced botanists will find not only of genuine interest, but full of 

 suggestiveness with regard to the development of the science, as all 

 good histories are. Further, it is a book to be highly commended to 

 the attention of young botanists, who will not only find the history of 

 their sul ject pleasantly told, but who will be made to feel the personal 

 spell of those workers most of whose names they are already familiar with, 

 and inspired to enthusiastic effort in their own field. 



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