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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

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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