Makers of British Botany. A Collection of Biographies 

 by living botanists. Edited by F. W. Olivej^ 



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



Price gj'. net. 



EXTR.ACT.S FROM PRESS NOTICES 



Athenaeum. — This volume i.s the outcome of a course of ten lectures delivered 

 at University College, London, in the spring of 191 1, in which a series 

 of different botanists each gave the biography of one of the " fathers " of 

 the subject. To these biogra|)hies six chapters have been added, in 



order to render the book "more fully representative." Each author 



brings out well the value of the work of the old master he is representing, 

 and indicates its bearing on the science of the day. As a supplement — 

 and to some extent a corrective — to Sachs's classical "History of Botany," 

 the present work must stand on the shelf of every serious botanist. 



Gardeners' Chronide. — Professor Oliver has carried out a difficult and onerous 

 task with conspicuous success It is not often possible to give whole- 

 hearted praise to a book ; but such praise may be given to this botanical 

 anthology. We hope that it will be made a text book in our universities, 

 and that thereby our youth engaged in the study of botanical science 

 may be brought up in the knowledge and veneration of the men who 

 laid the foundations on which modern botanists are building. 



Ftetd. — This volume consists of a series of sketches of the lives of eminent 

 British botanists treated in relation to their botanical labours and the 

 influence they have exerted on the development of the science of 



botany Apart from the interest attaching to some of the biographies 



on account of the strenuous lives and strong personalities they portray, 

 the historical review of the growth of botanical knowledge also contains 



much that is both generally instructive and scientifically useful , the 



book as a whole being eminently readable. 



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



science is omitted 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 subject pleasantly told, but who will be made to feel 

 the personal spell of those workers most of whose names they are alreadv 

 familiar with, and inspired to enthusiastic effort in their own held. 



Glasgow Herald. — The book is valuable in bringing to notice the work of 

 some men who have really initiated sub-sciences and yet are not well 

 known. The articles are all by men specially qualified to appreciate and 



expound their particular subject The book is well illustrated with 



portraits of the botanists and reproductions of their drawings. There is 

 a comprehensive inde.x. 



\_An illustrated prospectus of this book may be obtained on application'^ 



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