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Makers of British botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists

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Oliver, Francis Wall, 1864-

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Cambridge, University press, 1913

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Includes a course of ten lectures delivered in 1911 in the Botanical department of University college, London.

Contents: Introduction.--Robert Morison and John Ray, by S. H. Vines.--Nehemiah Grew, by Agnes Arber.--Stephen Hales, by F. Darwin.--John Hill, by T. G. Hill.--Robert Brown, by J. B. Farmer.--Sir William Hooker, by F. O. Bower.--John Stevens Henslow, by G. Henslow.--John Lindley, by F. Keeble.--William Griffith, by W. H. Lang.--Arthur Henfrey, by F. W. Oliver.--William Henry Harvey, by R. L. Praeger.--Miles Joseph Berkeley, by G. Massee.--Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, by W. B. Bottomley.--William Crawford Williamson, by D. H. Scott.--Harry Marshall Ward, by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer.--A sketch of the professors of botany in Edinburgh from 1670 until 1887, by I. B. Balfour.--Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, F. O. Bower.