Makers of British Botany, edited
by F. W. Oliver
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Oliver, F. W. (Francis Wall), 1864-1951
- Title
- Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QK: Science: Botany
- Subject
- Botanists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 46415
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46415
- Release Date
- July 26, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MAKERS OF BRITISH BOTANY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INTRODUCTION — FOOTNOTE:
- 6.ROBERT MORISON AND JOHN RAY
- 7.NEHEMIAH GREW — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.STEPHEN HALES — Assimilation. — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.JOHN HILL — His attack on the Royal Society. — Anatomy. — Physiology. — Taxonomy. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.ROBERT BROWN
- 11.SIR WILLIAM HOOKER
- 12.JOHN STEVENS HENSLOW — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.JOHN LINDLEY — Introduction. — Outline of Career. — Lindley and Kew. — Publications. "The Theory and Practice of Horticulture." — "The Vegetable Kingdom" and "The Botanical Register." — Orchids. — Personal Characteristics.
- 14.WILLIAM GRIFFITH
- 15.ARTHUR HENFREY — FOOTNOTE:
- 16.WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY — Systematic Mycology. — Morphology and Literature. — Plant Pathology.
- 18.SIR JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT
- 19.WILLIAM CRAWFORD WILLIAMSON — FOOTNOTES:
- 20.HARRY MARSHALL WARD — FOOTNOTE:
- 21.A SKETCH OF THE PROFESSORS OF BOTANY IN EDINBURGH FROM 1670 UNTIL 1887 — FOOTNOTE:
- 22.SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER
- 23.INDEX
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