F. W. O.
October, 1912
[CONTENTS]
| PAGE | |
| 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]
| PLATE | To 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.