Vines, Sydney Howard (1849-1934), botanist

Letters to S H Vines from German botanists:

1-24 Letters from Julius von Sachs, plant physiologist, Professor of Botany at Würzburg, 1877-1895.

25-33 Letters from (Heinrich) Anton de Bary, founder of mycology, Professor of Botany at Strasbourg. With a printed announcement of de Bary's death, 1877-1888.

34-45 Letters from Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1844-1912), plant cytologist, Director of the Botanical Institute, University of Bonn, 1892-1898.

1877-1898

45 items

Phillips' 24 March 1988, lots 63, 65, 68.

Further correspondence of Vines is held at Cambridge University Library (Add. 8580 and Dar. 185). On Vines' influence on biochemistry, see N D Morgan, 'The development of biochemistry in England', University of London PhD thesis, 1982.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).