Makers of British Botany
A Collection of Biographies by Living Botanists

First published in 1913, this volume contains biographies of influential botanists, written by distinguished botanists of the period.

F. W. Oliver (Edited by)

9781108016025, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

400 pages, 28 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg

First published in 1913, this volume reproduces a series of lectures on influential botanists delivered in 1911 in the Botanical Department of University College, London. The subjects of these biographies include Sir William Hooker (1785–1865), the first Director of Kew, and John Ray (1627–1705), considered the founder of scientific botany in Britain. The biographies are written by distinguished botanists of the period, over half of them holding a university professorship and membership of the Royal Society. Edited by F. W. Oliver (1864–1951), Professor of Botany at University College, London, from 1890 to 1929, these essays provide information on the lives, and discuss the scientific contributions, of each botanist, each contributor specialising in the same area of botany as the subject. The wide range of subjects covered demonstrates the development of key botanical concepts and the growth of scientific botany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Introduction
Robert Morison 1620–1683 and John Ray 1627–1705 Sydney Howard Vines
Nehemiah Grew 1641–1712 Agnes Arber
Stephen Hales 1677–1761 Francis Darwin
John Hill 1716-1775 T.G. Hill
Robert Brown 1773–1858 J.B. Farmer
Sir William Hooker 1785–1865 F.O. Bower
John Stevens Henslow 1796–1861 George Henslow
John Lindley 1799–1865 Frederick Keeble
William Griffith 1810–1845 W.H. Lang
Arthur Henfrey 1819–1859 F.W. Oliver
William Henry Harvey 1811–1866 R. Lloyd Praeger
Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803–1889 George Massee
Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert 1817–1901 W.B. Bottomley
William Crawford Williamson 1816–1895 Dukinfield H. Scott
Harry Marshall Ward 1854–1906 Sir William Thiselton-Dyer
A sketch of the Professors of Botany in Edinburgh from 1670 until 1887 Isaac Bayley Balfour
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817–1911 F.O. Bower
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]