F. W. O.

October, 1912


[CONTENTS]

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Introduction[1]
Robert Morison 1620-1683 and John Ray 1627-1705. By Sydney Howard Vines[8]
Nehemiah Grew 1641-1712. By Agnes Arber[44]
Stephen Hales 1677-1761. By Francis Darwin[65]
John Hill 1716-1775. By T. G. Hill[84]
Robert Brown 1773-1858. By J. B. Farmer[108]
Sir William Hooker 1785-1865. By F. O. Bower[126]
John Stevens Henslow 1796-1861. By George Henslow[151]
John Lindley 1799-1865. By Frederick Keeble[164]
William Griffith 1810-1845. By W. H. Lang[178]
Arthur Henfrey 1819-1859. By F. W. Oliver[192]
William Henry Harvey 1811-1866. By R. Lloyd Praeger[204]
Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889. By George Massee[225]
Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert 1817-1901. By W. B. Bottomley[233]
William Crawford Williamson 1816-1895. By Dukinfield H. Scott[243]
Harry Marshall Ward 1854-1906. By Sir William Thiselton-Dyer[261]
A sketch of the Professors of Botany in Edinburgh from 1670 until 1887. By Isaac Bayley Balfour[280]
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817-1911. By F. O. Bower[302]
Index[324]

[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]

PLATETo face p.
Frontispiece.John Hutton Balfour (1878).
I.Robert Morison[8]
II.Great Gate of the Physic Garden, Oxford[18]
III.John Ray[28]
IV.Nehemiah Grew (1701)[44]
V.Plate from Anatomy of Vegetables Begun, 1672[48]
VI.Facsimile of a page from The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks, Nehemiah Grew, 1675[52]
VII.From Grew's Anatomy. Sheweth the Parts of a Goosberry. Part of a Vine Branch cut transversly, and splitt half way downe ye midle[56]
VIII.Stephen Hales (1759)[65]
IX.Plate 18 from Hales's Vegetable Staticks[82]
X.John Hill[84]
XI.Robert Brown (circa 1856)[108]
XII.Sir William Jackson Hooker (1834)[126]
XIII.John Stevens Henslow (1851)[151]
XIV.John Lindley (1848)[164]
XV.William Griffith (1843)[178]
XVI.From Griffith's Notulae. Median section of the ovule of Cycas. Nucellar apex of Cycas with pollen chamber and pollen grains[188]
XVII.William Henry Harvey[204]
XVIII.Miles Joseph Berkeley[225]
XIX.Joseph Henry Gilbert[233]
XX.Henry Witham of Lartington.[243]
XXI.William Crawford Williamson (1876)[246]
XXII.Vascular system of stem of Lepidodendron selaginoides in transverse section[250]
XXIII.Root of Calamites (Astromyelon Williamsonis) in transverse section[254]
XXIV.Cone of Calamostachys Binneyana; sporangia and sporangiophores[256]
XXV.Harry Marshall Ward (1895)[261]
XXVI.Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1868)[302]

Text-fig. [p. 77.] Figure from Vegetable Staticks showing a vine with mercury gauges in place to demonstrate root pressure.