----------------------------+-----+------+---------------------------- Subject |Born | Died | Author ----------------------------+-----+------+---------------------------- *Robert Morison |1620 | 1683}| } Prof. S. H. Vines, F.R.S. *John Ray |1627 | 1705}| } *Nehemiah Grew |1641 | 1712 | Mrs Arber *Stephen Hales |1677 | 1761 | Francis Darwin, F.R.S. John Hill |1716 | 1775 | T. G. Hill *Robert Brown |1773 | 1858 | Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.R.S. *Sir William Hooker |1785 | 1865 | Prof. F. O. Bower, F.R.S. *The Rev. J. S. Henslow |1796 | 1861 | The Rev. Prof. Geo. Henslow John Lindley |1799 | 1865 | Prof. Frederick Keeble *William Griffith |1810 | 1845 | Prof. W. H. Lang, F.R.S. *Arthur Henfrey |1819 | 1859 | Prof. F. W. Oliver, F.R.S. *William Henry Harvey |1811 | 1866 | W. Lloyd Praeger The Rev. Miles Berkeley |1803 | 1889 | George Massee Sir Joseph Gilbert |1817 | 1901 | Prof. W. B. Bottomley *William Crawford Williamson|1816 | 1895 | Dr D. H. Scott, F.R.S. Harry Marshall Ward |1854 | 1905 | Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. | | | The Edinburgh Professors |1670 | 1887 | Prof. I. Bayley Balfour, | | | F.R.S. ----------------------------+-----+------+---------------------------- * Was the subject of a lecture in the University Course. The first three chapters deal with the founders of British Botany, MORISON and RAY in the systematic field, GREW, the plant anatomist, and HALES the physiologist. These are pioneers and the names of Ray, Grew, and Hales must always remain illustrious in the annals of Botanical Science. JOHN HILL, with all his versatility, belongs to another plane, but his inclusion here is justified on historical grounds, by the prominent part he played in making known the method of the great Swedish systematist Linnaeus, a method which took deep root and gave an immense stimulus to systematic studies in this country. In ROBERT BROWN we have the greatest botanist of his day, for thirty years keeper of the Botanical Department of the British Museum. It is doubtful if any greater intellect than Brown's has ever been devoted to the service of Botanical Science. SIR WILLIAM HOOKER was the first Director of Kew, and under his genial administration the foundations of that great institution were most truly laid. Born under the star of Linnaeus, his own researches lay in the systematic field--more especially among the Ferns and Bryophytes.