John Bretland Farmer, 1865-1944

1945 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
The Family ◽  
Obituary Notice ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

By the death of Sir John Farmer in 1944 biology lost a remarkable personality, notable not only in academic botany and in the field of its application, but also as an administrator. He was born on 5 April 1865 at Atherstone, the son of John Henry Farmer and Elizabeth Corbett, née Rutland. The family was an old Leicestershire one of which the earlier name was Warde, the change to Farmer being made in the sixteenth century. He attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School at Atherstone, but owing to temporary ill-health he left after five years and was later educated privately. He went to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1883 holding a demyship in natural science from that year to 1887, when he took a first class in the Honours School of Natural Science. While at Oxford Farmer came under the influence of Isaac Bayley Balfour, who was Sherardian Professor of Botany for the brief period of 1884-1888, when he went to Edinburgh as Professor of Botany in the University and Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, a post which Balfour’s father had held before him. In after life Farmer always spoke most warmly of Bayley Balfour as teacher, botanist, gardener and friend, and ended an obituary notice of his old teacher with this high appreciation, ‘Really great men are very rare and Isaac Bayley Balfour was one of them’. It is probable that Farmer owed to Bayley Balfour not only encouragement in botany but also his gardening enthusiasm.

Frederick Maurice Rowe, 1891-1946

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 231-250
Keyword(s):  
Technical Training ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The West ◽  
Textile Dyeing ◽  
The Family ◽  
Strong Attachment ◽  
The University ◽  
Edict Of Nantes

Frederick Maurice Rowe, Professor in the Department of Colour Chemistry and Dyeing at the University of Leeds, died on the 8 December 1946, at the age of fifty-five. He was born on 11 February 1891 at Stroud in Gloucestershire where his father, H. J. Rowe, was engaged in business as a coal merchant and dealer in builders’ materials, under the name of Wood and Rowe. From 1901 to 1908 he attended Marling School, Stroud, and always retained for it a strong attachment for which there were solid grounds. The school, founded and endowed in 1887 by Sir Samuel Marling, a prominent figure in the West of England cloth trade in that part of Gloucestershire, had attracted the attention of the Worshipful Company of Cloth workers by whose efforts a Department of Dyeing had been established at the Yorkshire College, Leeds. The Company decided to provide funds for an annual leaving scholarship to help a Marling School boy to proceed to Leeds for two years’ technological training in textile dyeing at the College. Similar provision was made at Cheltenham Grammar School and in consequence there were unusual opportunities for boys from Gloucestershire to go north for scientific and technical training whilst becoming familiar with another district famous for its woollen industry. On his mother’s side Rowe was descended from a family of Huguenots who fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and settled in Gloucestershire to practise their craft of woollen manufacture with which some members of the family continued to maintain a connexion. This circumstance and the Cotswold environment may have helped to direct Rowe’s choice of a career, but a love for chemistry was awakened in him by one of the masters at the school, Bartlett, whose influence in after years he frequently acknowledged with gratitude.

scholarly journals Agapetes D. Don Ex G. Don

2015 ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Tony Conlon
Keyword(s):  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) holds a number of collections of the family Ericaceae (Conlon, 2010; 2012). One of these is the genus Agapetes D. Don ex G. Don. An overview of the literature on this genus is given with the distribution and a history of the collection at RBGE. Horticultural information for the cultivation and propagation of the genus is included.

scholarly journals Welcoming Remarks

1986 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
D. M. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

Welcome to Edinburgh and this second symposium on the plant life of SW Asia, supported by the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Botanic Garden and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It is fifteen years since the first symposium was held as part of the Garden's tercentenary and now at this occasion you have an opportunity to consider progress, to renew old friendships and to make new ones. That should be easy, for the list of participants shows a wonderful representation from all the countries of SW Asia and also of the institutes in Europe and America involved in SW Asian studies. Unfortunately, not all of our friends are here for since we last met we have lost quite a few: we particularly miss Professor Michael Zohary and Professor Per Wendelbo, who died alas, a relatively young man, far too soon.

Commentary on the general results

1964 ◽  
Vol 161 (982) ◽  
pp. 3-6 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
National Herbarium ◽  
The World ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
The University

As regards the collection of plants, totalling about 3000 numbers, most of the flowering plants and ferns have been identified by the staff of the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, mainly by Mr Forman and Professor Holttum. We collected, whenever possible, ten to twelve duplicates and most of these are being distributed to the main herbaria of the world. There are still, nevertheless, many specimens which need monographic revision to establish their true identity. It is impossible, yet, to say how many are new. Professor J. L. Harrison, at the University of Singapore, is still at work on his account of the small mammals and their parasites. Mr Askew is at work on the soil samples. For my part, I have studied the fig collections, and there is nowhere in the world, that I know of, with such a rich fig flora as Kinabalu. It has 78 species (15 endemic), and our expedition discovered 2 new species and 4 new varieties, which fit neatly into gaps in the classification which I have been making. The fig insects are being studied by Dr Wiebes, at the National Museum in Leiden, in our joint effort to write the zoo-botany of Ficus . Already, Dr Wiebes has been able to publish a revision of the insect genus solen which inhabits Ficus sect. Sycocarpus ; he recognizes 32 species of which 23 are new, including 10 from our collections on Kinabalu. I am also at work on the fungi, which have to be collated with my earlier Malayan collections. This work, however, means almost monographic treatment of every group. With the great help of Dr Bas, at the National Herbarium in Leiden, an illustrated account of the genus Amanita in Malaya and Borneo has recently been published. We recognize 22 new species out of a total of 30, and this proportion shows the difficulty of pursuing mycology where there are so few names.

scholarly journals William Wright Smith, 1875-1956

1957 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 192-202
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Living Things ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Regius Professor

Sir William Wright Smith, the eminent botanist, who was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1944 to 1949, died on 15 December 1956, in his eighty-second year. For thirty-four years he held the dual appointment of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; he was also Queen’s Botanist in Scotland. Born at Parkend near Lochmaben on 2 February 1875, the son of a Dumfries-shire farmer, he early acquired the interest in living things and a love for the country, which (though he was to spend the greater part of his life in Edinburgh) remained predominantly with him all his days. His school was the Dumfries Academy where he went till the age of sixteen, when he left for Edinburgh as first University Bursar. Every day he had to travel to school by train, yet he found time to explore his native countryside, and his regard for natural history was by no means confined to plants. For example, he enjoyed watching birds and fishing, or, with one or two companions, guddling for trout or, again, in a leisure hour lying on some sunny bank by a convenient rabbit warren with book and gun. Though not robust he played conventional games, and he was fond of cycling, sometimes covering long distances, once at least more than a hundred miles in one day.

scholarly journals Christopher Kelk Ingold, 1893-1970

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 348-411 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Grammar School ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
The University

Christopher Kelk Ingold, the son of William Kelk Ingold and Harriet Walker Newcomb, was born at Forest Gate, London, on 28 October 1893. On account of his father’s health, the family moved to Shanklin, Isle of Wight, while he was still an infant. His father, William Kelk Ingold, died when Christopher was only 5 years old, and his sister Doris, who survives him, was only 2 years old. Christopher Ingold attended Sandown Grammar School, and went on to Hartley University College, Southampton, now the University of Southampton; there he obtained his B.Sc. Honours Degree as an external student of the University of London in October 1913. At school and at college he was better at physics than at chemistry; but at Southampton in those days, physics was taught as a completed subject, very neat and tidy and rather dull, whereas chemistry, under Professor D. R. Boyd, was taught as a living, growing, and exciting subject, and he therefore decided to take up chemistry. He does not seem to have played games at school or college; however, he once told the writer that he could have done better in his degree examinations if he had not devoted so much time to playing chess in the Union.

scholarly journals Cultivation of the genus Pelargonium under glass

2009 ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Kate Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Pest Control ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
The Other ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Difference

This paper describes the cultivation under glass of the genus Pelargonium. The difference between Pelargonium and the other four genera in the family Geraniaceae is noted and a list of species grown at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is provided. The use of the genus in the display glasshouses at this botanic garden is described followed by notes on cultivation including watering, nutrition, pruning, pest control, and propagation. The use of pelargoniums in the commercial and medicinal industries follows.

scholarly journals Cultivation of Orites Myrtoideus

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
Robert Blackhall-Miles
Keyword(s):  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Arid Lands ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Conservation Action ◽  
Evergreen Shrub ◽  
The Andes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Ex Situ Collections ◽  
Broad Overview

Orites myrtoideus (Poepp. & Endl.) Engl. is an evergreen shrub in the family Proteaceae, endemic  to the Andes of both Chile and Argentina. With a small distribution and increasing risks, direct conservation action has been recommended. Ex situ cultivation and subsequent translocation of populations may be an option for the conservation of this species. In recent documented history this species has been grown ex situ on only a small number of occasions. One plant was grown outside at Benmore Botanic Garden for a period of five years and another has been grown at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as part of the Arid Lands collections. A better understanding of its cultivation requirements has been deemed necessary before ex situ collections can be established.This study aims to give a broad overview of the germination and first 12 months of cultivation of this taxon with the aim of informing future ex situ cultivation and subsequent restoration initiatives.

scholarly journals Byzantine Fourteenth-Century Glazed Vessels Featuring Monograms Excavated in Cherson and the Castle of Cembalo

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 225-253
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Ginkut ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Family ◽  
Holy Water ◽  
The University ◽  
Archaeometric Study ◽  
Made In

This paper addresses the Byzantine vessels featuring monograms excavated in Cherson and in Cembalo, and their interpretation and significance for the life of the Greek population of the south-western Crimea. So far, archaeological researches discovered 15 vessels made in Byzantium, which showed monograms of the life of saints (“George,” “Michael,” and “Prodromos”), the family name “Palaiologos,” and also code letters “A” (“relic”) and “K.” These vessels were containers for holy water, and in a few cases, plausibly, for myrrh. These vessels were delivered to Cherson and Cembalo as gifts or eulogiai from Constantinople (?), as a part of ideological propaganda. The comparative archaeometric study of the three samples from Cembalo castle in a lab of the University of Lyon revealed one vessel’s similarity with the products of a fourteenth-century pottery workshop discovered in the vicinity of Istanbul. Although two samples more belong to a group different from the said workshop’s products, they still show similar technological parameters. The chronology of the vessels in question lays within the 1320s–1350s in Cherson and from the second half of the fourteenth to the early fifteenth century in Cembalo.

The Last Two Decades

2020 ◽  
pp. 317-332
Author(s):  
Toby Musgrave
Keyword(s):  
75Th Birthday ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Chronic Gout ◽  
Made In

This chapter recounts the last two decades of Joseph Banks's life since his 75th birthday in 1800. It describes how Banks was getting older and suffered the incapacities and endured the torments of chronic gout. It talks about Banks's management of his estates and land interests, as well as the overall management of the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew and supervision of his scientific and engraving teams in the rooms behind 32 Soho Square. The chapter describes how it became painful and hard for Banks to write and how he was forced to dictate to his ever-faithful assistant, Robert Brown. It mentions Banks's last purchase for his collection and acquisition of the herbarium that Jean François Berger made in 1814.

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