Botany
Botany is the study of plants. Historically, the living world was divided into the 'animal kingdom' and the 'plant kingdom'. Algae, fungi, lichen, and bacteria have at times been classified as plants and studied as such by botanists, including many of those whose papers are described on the Hub.
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Collections
- Sherard Collection: papers relating to Oxford Botanic Garden (founded 1621) and Oxford botanists
- Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776): Lieutenant-Governor of New York, and botanist
- William Withering (1741-1799): botanist and physician; credited with introducing digitalis to medicine
- Joseph Banks (1743-1820): naturalist, Fellow of the Royal Society; travelled with Cook's Endeavour expedition around the world (1768-1771)
- Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866): MP for Edinburgh; studied algae and lichen
- William Pamplin (1806-1899): botanist and publisher of The Phytologist
- John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884): Professor of Botany, and Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden
- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911): botanist to the Geological Survey, and to the British Naval Expedition to the Antarctic (1839-1843); director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
- Botany Department of the University of St Andrews papers from 1818-2002
- Royal Botanical & Horticultural Society Manchester: founded in 1827, created botanical gardens in Old Trafford
- William Barwell Turner (1845-1917): botanist and expert on algae
- Richard Baron (1847-1907): missionary and botanist; Fellow of the Linnean Society
- Frederick Orpen Bower (1855-1948): Professor of Botany, with a special interest in ferns
- John Hardie Wilson (1858-1920): experimental botanist; researched disease-resistant food crops
- Charles Howie (fl 19th century): author of The moss flora of Fife and Kinross (1889)
- David Robert Robertson (1870-1949): jute merchant, antiquarian, mountaineer, and botanist
- Robert Henry Corstorphine(1874-1942) and Margaret Corstorphine (fl 1900), amateur botanists; compiled a botanical survey of Angus, with Sir George Taylor (1904-1993), director of the Royal Botanical Gardens
- Robert Smith (around 1874-1900): involved in the Botanical Survey of Scotland
- David Thoday (1883-1964): Fellow of the Royal Society; Professor of Botany
- JH Salter (fl 1900): Professor of Botany; studied lichens
- Walter Stiles (1886-1966): Professor of Botany
- Alexander Stuart Watt (1892-1985): plant ecologist
- Frederick Gugenheim Gregory (1893-1961): Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor of Plant Physiology
- Lily Newton (1893-1981): Professor of Botany at University of Wales Aberystwyth
- Robert Hill (1899-1991): biochemist who researched photosynthesis
- Cyril Darlington (1903-1981): botanist and geneticist
- Arthur Roy Clapham (1904-1990): Professor of Botany; author of the Oxford Book of Trees (1975)
- Robert Brown (1908-1999): Professor of Botany
- John Laker Harley (1911-1990): forest scientist
- Paul E Weatherley (1917-2001): Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor of Botany
- Edith Philip Smith (fl 1926-1960): lecturer in botany
- Ellis Crapper (died 1973): noted amateur botanist and photographer
- Maud Grieve (fl 1937): herbalist, President of the British Guild of Herb Growers, and Fellow of the British Science Guild
- Geoffrey HS Wood (1927-1957): forest botanist
Related links
- University of Oxford Botanic Garden
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: includes library and archives
- Natural History Museum: botany
- National Botanic Garden of Wales
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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