Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming;the observation of Brownian motion;early work on plant pollination and fertilisation,including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms;and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy,notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today;and numerous Australian plant genera and species,the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders.
John Lindley FRS was an English botanist,gardener and orchidologist.
John Hutton Balfour was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany,first at the University of Glasgow in 1841,moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in 1845. He held these posts until his retirement in 1879. He was nicknamed Woody Fibre.
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants,their diversity and conservation,as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants,today it occupies four sites across Scotland—Edinburgh,Dawyck,Logan and Benmore—each with its own specialist collection. The RBGE's living collection consists of more than 13,302 plant species,whilst the herbarium contains in excess of 3 million preserved specimens.
His Majesty's Botanist is a member of the Royal household in Scotland.
Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott FRS HFRSE LLD was a British botanist. The standard author abbreviation D.H.Scott is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist. His son was the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949).
Professor David John Mabberley,is a British-born botanist,educator and writer. Among his varied scientific interests is the taxonomy of tropical plants,especially trees of the families Labiatae,Meliaceae and Rutaceae. He is perhaps best known for his plant dictionary The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the vascular plants. The third edition was published in 2008 as Mabberley's Plant-book,for which he was awarded the Engler Medal in Silver in 2009. As of June 2017 Mabberley's Plant-book is in its fourth edition.
William Thomas Stearn was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge in 1911,he was largely self-educated and developed an early interest in books and natural history. His initial work experience was at a Cambridge bookshop,but he also had a position as an assistant in the university botany department. At the age of 29 he married Eldwyth Ruth Alford,who later became his collaborator,and he died in London in 2001.
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour,KBE,FRS,FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885,Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1884 to 1888,and Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh from 1888 to 1922.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to botany:
Mark Wayne Chase is a US-born British botanist. He is noted for work in plant classification and evolution,and one of the instigators of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-classification for flowering plants which is partly based on DNA studies. In particular he has researched orchids,and currently investigates ploidy and hybridization in Nicotiana.
James Edgar Dandy was a British botanist,Keeper of Botany at the British Museum between 1956 and 1966. He was a world specialist on the plant genus Potamogeton and the family Magnoliaceae.
Richard Mark Bateman is a British botanist and paleobotanist. He was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1994. He was awarded a DSc from University of London in 2001 for his work on plant phylogenetics and evolution,palaeobotany and palaeoenvironments.
Eduard Meine van Zinderen Bakker was a Dutch-born South African palynologist who made significant contributions to the fields of plant ecology,palynology and palaeo-ecology of Africa.
The Royal status of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is intrinsically linked to the issue of a Royal Warrant to the first Intendant of the Gardens in 1699. Since that date,the appointment of each new Director of RBGE has required the assent of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom,the appointee receiving the unique title RegiusKeeper.
Simon Stephen Milne is a British marine officer and conservationist who has been Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh since 2014.
Douglas Mackay Henderson CBE FRSE FLS was a Scottish botanist,the 12th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1970 to 1987.
Frederick James Chittenden (1873–1950) was a British horticulturalist and first director of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Wisley Garden. He was the author of a number of books on horticulture.
Sir Frederick William Moore,was President of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland,and Keeper of the Royal Botanical Gardens,Dublin in the period 1879-1922.
