Friedrich Welwitsch, 1806-72: His manuscripts and correspondence in the Departments of Botany and Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), the Linnean Society of London, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

1972 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHYLLIS I. EDWARDS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

Sir George Taylor, 15 February 1904 - 12 November 1993

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 458-469
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Flowering Plant ◽  
Plant Taxonomy ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botany Department ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Ideal Person ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
The Ideal

George Taylor was a major British figure in flowering plant taxonomy during the period from 1930 to 1970. A Scot, he was trained at Edinburgh University and was first employed (in 1928) in the Botany Department of the British Museum (Natural History) as assistant in the herbarium, then as Deputy Keeper of Botany and finally as Keeper, coming into contact with all the influential currents of plant taxonomy of his day. This experience, coupled with his life-long interest in gardening, made him the ideal person to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew when Sir Edward Salisbury retired in 1956. Taylor spent 15 very active years at Kew, and then, at an age when most are thinking of retiring, took on a new career as Director of the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, a post which he held for 18 years until illness made it impossible for him to continue. Over this long period, his influence on flowering plant taxonomy and gardening in Britain and abroad was enormous and widely recognized.

Portraying plants: illustrations collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Ward ◽  
John Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Digital Strategy ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanical Illustration

The Library & Archives at Kew hold one of the world’s greatest collections of botanical illustration, assembled over the last 200 years. A resource well-known to the natural history community, it contains much to interest art historians. Using this historically rich heritage our forward thinking includes acquisition of more contemporary items and the formulation of a digital strategy for 21st-century access and exploitation.

scholarly journals John Christopher Willis 1868-1958

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 353-359
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Botany Department ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
University College ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens

John Christopher Willis was bom at Birkenhead on 20 February 1868. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Cambridge and for a time was an assistant in the Botany Department at Glasgow. In 1896, he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon, and held the post for 15 years. From 1912 to 1915 he was director of the Botanic Garden at Rio de Janeiro and after his retirement he worked at Cambridge and later went to live at Les Terrages, Avenue des Alpes, Montreux, Switzerland, where he died on 21 March 1958. He married Minnie, daughter of T. Baldwin, in 1897, and she died in 1931. There were three daughters of the marriage. He was an M.A. and Sc.D.(Cantab.), and was given an honorary S.D. by Harvard. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1897 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919. The Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya , was a periodical founded by him, volume 1 part 1 appearing on 27 June 1901. Willis contributed very largely to the earlier volumes and edited volumes 1 to 4 inclusive, to 1910, and volume 5, parts 1 to 3, to December 1911. He was also editor of The Empire Cotton Growing Review from vol. 1, 1924 to vol. 16, 1939.

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