Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists
History
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists
Botanists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Botany -- Great Britain -- History
[76] Further information relating to Hill's public Life will be found
in the following works. Arthur Murphy, _The Life of David Garrick_,
London, 1801; _A narrative of the affair between Mr Brown and the
Inspector_, London, 1752; _The Covent Garden Journal_, 1752; Frederick
Lawrence, _Life of Fielding_, London, 1855.
[77] Ed. by Dallinger, London, 1891.
[78] _Outlines of a System of Vegetable Generation_, London, 1758.
[79] By Lindforss in 1896.
[80] _The British Herbal; an History of Plants, and Trees, natives of
Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for Beauty_, London, 1756.
[81] _Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in
England_, London, 1790.
[82] _The Gardeners New Kalendar ... The System of Linnaeus also
explained_, London, 1758.
[83] _Flora Britanica sive Synopsis methodica stirpium Britanicarum
post tertiam editionem synopseos Raianae ... nunc primum ad C. Linnaei
methodum disposita_, London, 1760 (some copies are dated 1759).
[84] _Loc. cit._
[85] _The Vegetable System Or, the Internal Structure and The Life of
Plants; Their Parts and Nourishment Explained; Their Classes, Orders,
Genera, and Species, Ascertained and Described...._ London, 1759-1775.
[86] London, 1758.
[87] _An Address to the Public ... loc. cit._
[88] See _Helleborine_ Hill v. _Epipactis_ Adans. G. Claridge Druce,
_Journal of Botany_, XLVI. 1908.
[89] Babington's _Manual of British Botany_, ed. by Groves, London.
Hayward's _Botanist's Pocket Book_, ed. by Druce, London, 1909.
[90] John Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, 1812.
[91] Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, ed. by Fitzgerald, London, 1897.
[92] _Ibid._; _Life of Garrick_, _loc. cit._
[93] Edinburgh, 1779, _loc. cit._
[94] _Loc. cit._
[95] _Loc. cit._
ROBERT BROWN
1773-1858
BY J. B. FARMER
Position of Botany before Brown--narrative--diary--naturalist to
the Flinders expedition--travels in Australia--his method in the
field--Essay and Prodromus on the vegetation of New Holland--the
Proteaceae and Asclepiadaceae--Brown's digressions--his
tenacity and caution--impregnation--views on the morphology
of the Gymnosperms in the memoir on _Kingia_--foundation
of ovular morphology--cell nucleus discussed--the simple
microscope--"Brownian movement" investigated--summary of
other work--Bryophytes--interest in fossil plants--personal
characteristics--Asa Gray's story--the Banksian collections--the
British Museum and Linnean Society--contemporary appreciation--his
outstanding merits.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account