British botanist, born in London on the 31st of December 1849. His education was conducted in private until he began the study of medicine at Guy’s Hospital in 1869. He then took a course at Cambridge, where, in 1876, he became a fellow and lecturer at Christ’s College; was elected to a readership in 1884, and in the same year took his Doctor of Science. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, and has written Lectures on the Physiology of Plants (1886); and contributed the articles in this Encyclopædia on Vegetable Physiology, Vegetable Reproduction and Vegetable Kingdom. He was also one of the founders and one of the editors of Annals of Botany. (See authored articles: Adolphe Brongniart, Karl Wilhelm von Naegeli, Julius Sachs.)
