INDEX 



Absorption, Aristotelian views on, 68 



Grew and, 58 



Hales and, 73-76 



Mariotte and, 68 



Adanson, Plant families and, 41 

 Agassiz, appreciation of, 215, 319 

 Agriculture, investigations in, 234, 236- 



237 



physiology and, 7 



Theophrastus and, 9 



Algae, Berkeley on British, 226 



collection of, 214, 216 



Harvey on, 208, 210-212, 216 



systematic work on, 202 



Williamson and, 252 



Algal floras, 219 



Alston, Charles, King's Botanist, 283- 

 284 



Hales and, 285-286 



investigations of, 285 



publications of, 286 



Alternation of generations, 188-189, 198 

 Amman, Morison's method and, 26 

 Anabaena filaments, Griffith on, 190, 196 

 Anatomical method, W. Hooker and, 



147-148 

 Anatomy, Balfour and comparative, 262 



Founders of, 2, 6, 44, 63, 67 



Grew and plant, 47-57 



Henfrey and Monocotyledon, 199 



Hill and plant, 93, 94, 95 



Annals of Botany, Ward and, 266 

 Annual rings, J. Hill and, 94 

 Antarctic flora, J. D. Hooker and, 3051 



311-312 

 Anthrax, Ward on, 272 

 Apical growth, Nageli and Leitgeb on, 135 

 Apogamy, Alston and, 286 

 Aquatic fungi, Ward on, 265 

 Aquatic Myxomycete, Ward and, 265 

 Arber, Agnes, on Grew, 44-64 



Newell, on Primofilices, 257 



Arboretum, founding of Edinburgh, 300 

 Archaeology, Williamson and, 249 

 Archegonia, discovery in Ferns of, 196- 



198 

 Aristotle, botanical writings of, 8 



Aristotle, value of work of, 15 



physiology and, 68 



Ascent of sap, Grew's explanation of, 58 

 Asclepiadaceae, R. Brown on the, 114- 



116 

 Assimilation, Hales on, 80 



Bacteria, action of light on, 273 

 Bacteriology, Ward on, 265, 271-273 

 Baker, J. Hill's quarrels with, 89-91 



Synopsis Filicum and, 146 



Balanophoraceae, Griffith on the, 186 



J. D. Hooker and the, 308 



Balfour, Andrew, pioneer work of, 281 



J. Bayley, on the Edinburgh Pro- 

 fessors, 280-301 



on the Ginger-beer plant, 269 



John Hutton, life of, 293-300 



Edinburgh Professorship and, 



293-295 



at Glasgow, 295 



administrative work of, 295 



teaching methods of, 299 



Banks, Sir Joseph, W. Hooker and, 129 



R. Brown and, iio-iii 



on "rust" disease, 275 



Banksian collections, R. Brown and, 



112-123, 134 

 de Bary, on potato disease, 266 



on "rust" disease, 27 



Ward's visit to, 264 



Basidia, Berkeley's researches on, 230 

 Bauer, W. Hooker and, 144-145 

 Bauhin, Caspar, Pinax of, 14-15 



and John, Morison on, 20 



Bean, collections of, 248 



on Yorkshire Fossil Flora, 247 



Bentham, collaboration with Hooker, 



313 



bequest of, 144 



collections of, 140 



Herbarium of, 310 



Berkeley, Miles Joseph, life of, 225-232 

 fungal morphology and, 230- 



231 



W. Hooker on, 227 

 as naturalist, 225-226 



