A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.

Date:
1914
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Credit: A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Society (to which he was elected in 1895) he published the follow- ing works:—A Manual of Botany (1895), The Soluble Ferments and Fermentation (1899, translated into German in 1901), Introduction to Vegetable Physiology (1900), Primer of Botany (1910), and A History of Botany from i860 to 1900 (1910). Of the value of his scientific work I am not qualified to speak, but I wish to place on record the conviction of all who knew him well that in his private life he uniformly displayed those qualities of patience, persistence, open-mindedness, and modesty, which are the best qualifications for any seeker after truth in every field of learning. G. E. GREEN. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, June 1914. APPENDIX TO PREFACE In the Autumn of 1913 owing to serious illness Dr. Reynolds Green found himself unable to correct the proofs of the present work and I undertook to aid him in the task so far as it lay in my power to do so. Fortunately, save for the Preface and Index, the MS. had been completed, while the Table of Contents and Chrono- logical Summary had been sketched out. In the early summer of the present year Dr. Green’s health had improved sufficiently to warrant his attempting to read over the “ final revise.” This task he had just begun when to the grief of his many friends and the deep regret of all his fellow botanists he succumbed to a second stroke following on an operation. As I had been familiar with the work from its first inception, his brother, Mr. G. E. Green of Caius College, Cambridge, asked me to undertake the melancholy duty of preparing the proofs for the press. In doing so I have incorporated such slight emendations or alterations as I found the author had made in pencil on the final revise, but otherwise, beyond purely typographical correc- tions, I have not altered the text in any way. The Table of Contents and the Chronological Summary have been finished on the lines sketched out by the author and a Name Index added. The Index is the work of Miss M. Knight, M.Sc., who has during the past two years acted as Dr. Green’s Assistant in the course of instruction he was in the habit of giving annually as Lecturer in Plant Physiology in the University of Liverpool.