History of Society 1906 to present
THE LIVERPOOL BOTANICAL SOCIETY, A HUNDRED YEARS OLD
On the 24th of April 1906 a letter was sent by Arthur A Dallman to local botanists, and a preliminary meeting was held at the Common Hall, Hackin’s Hey, Liverpool on the 26th. The proposed aims were the stimulation and promotion of the various branches of Botany and research, especially in connection with local Botany.
An inaugural meeting was held on May 21st at the Common Hall, where the Society’s rules and constitution were discussed “and after exhaustive discussion and amendment” were adopted.
"The object of the Society shall be to promote for the benefit of the public the study of the various branches of botany"
Officers appointed were Rev. S Gasking (President), J A Wheldon and Rev. W Wright Mason (Vice-Presidents), F J Routledge (Treasurer) and A A Dallman (Secretary).
In 1906 field meetings were held at Ainsdale, Leasowe and Moreton, Crosby and Hightown, the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, Leasowe and West Kirby, Speke and a fungus foray at Raby Mere.
With the imminent publication of the Flora of West Lancashire by J A Wheldon and A Wilson, in 1907, a committee was formed to produce a South Lancashire Flora. W G Travis was the Secretary, a position he held for more than fifty years. The Flora was almost complete by the early 1920’s but financial reasons prevented its publication. There was a renewal of interest in 1956 and Travis’s Flora of South Lancashire by J P Savidge, V H Heywood and Miss Vera Gordon was published in 1963.
The early years of the Society are documented in the Proceedings of the Liverpool Botanical Society, then later in Bulletins and the Society then produced a newsletter, Parnassia with reports of indoor and field meetings.
The Library of the Society, also founded in 1906, is located in the Botany Department in the Museum.
THE LIVERPOOL BOTANICAL SOCIETY, A HUNDRED YEARS OLD
On the 24th of April 1906 a letter was sent by Arthur A Dallman to local botanists, and a preliminary meeting was held at the Common Hall, Hackin’s Hey, Liverpool on the 26th. The proposed aims were the stimulation and promotion of the various branches of Botany and research, especially in connection with local Botany.
An inaugural meeting was held on May 21st at the Common Hall, where the Society’s rules and constitution were discussed “and after exhaustive discussion and amendment” were adopted.
"The object of the Society shall be to promote for the benefit of the public the study of the various branches of botany"
Officers appointed were Rev. S Gasking (President), J A Wheldon and Rev. W Wright Mason (Vice-Presidents), F J Routledge (Treasurer) and A A Dallman (Secretary).
In 1906 field meetings were held at Ainsdale, Leasowe and Moreton, Crosby and Hightown, the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, Leasowe and West Kirby, Speke and a fungus foray at Raby Mere.
With the imminent publication of the Flora of West Lancashire by J A Wheldon and A Wilson, in 1907, a committee was formed to produce a South Lancashire Flora. W G Travis was the Secretary, a position he held for more than fifty years. The Flora was almost complete by the early 1920’s but financial reasons prevented its publication. There was a renewal of interest in 1956 and Travis’s Flora of South Lancashire by J P Savidge, V H Heywood and Miss Vera Gordon was published in 1963.
The early years of the Society are documented in the Proceedings of the Liverpool Botanical Society, then later in Bulletins and the Society then produced a newsletter, Parnassia with reports of indoor and field meetings.
The Library of the Society, also founded in 1906, is located in the Botany Department in the Museum.
Early Officers of the Society
Field Trips in the 1990's
Murdishaw 2005
hall road 2006
Presidents of the LBS
1906 Rev. Samuel Gasking
1907-8 Professor R.J. Harvey- Gibson
1909-10 James A. Wheldon
1911-13 Walter T. Hadon
1914-15 Arthur A. Dallman
1916-17 William G. Travis
1918-19 Arthur A. Dallman
1920 Arthur H. Dudley
1921-22 Ethel Warhurst
1952-53 Vera Gordon
1991-93 Eric Greenwood
1994-95 Peter Gateley
1996-99 Angus Gunn
2000-01 Eric Greenwood
2002-3 John Edmondson
2004-6 Keith Watson
2007-9 Peter Gateley
2010-12 Steven Cross
2013-14 Peter Gateley
2015- Steven Cross
Secretary
1906-12 A.A.Dallman
1913-15 Miss M.B. Barr
1916 W.R. Sibbald
1917-18 Miss A. Lee
1940-2000 Vera Gordon
2001- Wendy Atkinson
1906 Rev. Samuel Gasking
1907-8 Professor R.J. Harvey- Gibson
1909-10 James A. Wheldon
1911-13 Walter T. Hadon
1914-15 Arthur A. Dallman
1916-17 William G. Travis
1918-19 Arthur A. Dallman
1920 Arthur H. Dudley
1921-22 Ethel Warhurst
1952-53 Vera Gordon
1991-93 Eric Greenwood
1994-95 Peter Gateley
1996-99 Angus Gunn
2000-01 Eric Greenwood
2002-3 John Edmondson
2004-6 Keith Watson
2007-9 Peter Gateley
2010-12 Steven Cross
2013-14 Peter Gateley
2015- Steven Cross
Secretary
1906-12 A.A.Dallman
1913-15 Miss M.B. Barr
1916 W.R. Sibbald
1917-18 Miss A. Lee
1940-2000 Vera Gordon
2001- Wendy Atkinson
Some important figures in the society
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James Alfred Wheldon
Botanist, bryologist and lichenologist. 26th May 1862 - 28th November 1924. Born in North Allerton, Yorkshire in 1862 he was educated in Darlington at Cleveland College and then at Westminster College of Pharmacy. He qualified in 1884, working in York and then in 1891 he became the pharmacist in Walton Prison, Liverpool where he spent the rest of his working life. His herbarium specimens are at National Museums of Wales (and correspondence) , Liverpool and elsewhere. http://herbariaunited.org/collector/2692/ Mark Lawley produced an account of his life which is on the BBS website at JAMES ALFRED WHELDON (britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk) Obituary was in Nature volume 114, page 904 (1924) (link here) William Peter Wheldon wrote a 140-page Biography “ An eminent Liverpool botanist " : a life of James Alfred Wheldon, MSC, ALS, ISM (1862-1924)” in paperback in September 2011. ISBN 9780957008007 An “In Memoriam” Is in the Naturalist January 1925 by JFR , pages 29-31 (Plus image) at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/200674#page/41/mode/1up An Obituary is in Journal of Botany 1925 pages 52 -54 by AG and ALS at http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1925.pdf Wheldon published many papers and of course with Albert Wilson wrote the Flora of West Lancashire. Wheldon, J.A. and Wilson, A.A. (1907). The Flora of West Lancashire. Henry Young and sons, Liverpool. plus various facsimiles up to at least 1978. Other papers include Wheldon, J.A. (1898). The mosses of South Lancashire. Journal of Botany 36, p133 - 40. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36199#page/149/mode/1up Wheldon, J.A. (1899). The mosses of South Lancashire. Journal of Botany 37, p11-16. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108520#page/17/mode/1up Wheldon, J.A. (1898). Lancashire and Cheshire Rubi. Journal of Botany 37, p 401-2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36199#page/429/mode/1up |
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Conrad Theodore Green M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H.
18th November 1863-17th April 1940 Doctor, Botanist and plant photographer. Born 18th November 1863 at Kirkburton, Yorkshire. Died aged 77 on 17th April 1940 at Birkenhead. A Physician who practiced in Birkenhead (31 Shrewsbury Road, Oxton) MRCS (Member Royal College of Surgeons) Eng., LRCP (Licentiate Royal College of Surgeons) London, DPH (Doctor of Public Health) and in the Army. A Colonel in AMS (Army Medical Service) , T.A. (Territorial Army) , T.D. (Territorial Decoration) (retired) late Assistant Director Medical Services, 68th Division; Volunteer 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment (Surgeon-Lieutenant) Memberships etc. Active at national and local level in the following British Mycological Society, Fellow Linnaean Society. President of Liverpool Naturalists Field Club 1901. LBS Vice President in 1933. President of Liverpool Botanical Society in 1934. Kingsley Memorial Prizeman 1902; Medalist 1905, Chester. Publications From his own pocket he funded and published the Flora of Liverpool District. 1902. D. Marples and Co. Lord Street, Liverpool. Link here for download. or here Drawings were by Emily Margaret Wood (1865-1907) also see in photo above Flora of Liverpool District. 1933. Second edition. Pp. xi + 163 + 201 plates. Arbroath: T. Buncle and Co. He also produced a Preliminary List of Local fungi, mainly from Wirral. 1901-2 and for Liverpool Public Museums a Handbook and Guide to Herb. collections 1935, 36. Collection of Plants at Birkenhead and Merseyside Museums. Collection of Photographic Slides at BM(NH) and Merseyside Museums. Collection of papers at Wirral Archive Services at Birkenhead and correspondence (1928- 1936) at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Obituary in Nature vol. 145, p770 (1940). link here https://www.nature.com/articles/145770b0 also in North Western Naturalist 1940. p170-171 (includes portrait). Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists Field Club. 1940, p8. |
William Gladstone Travis
29th April 1877 – 29th March 1958.
A patent agent by profession, Secretary of South Lancashire Flora Committee from 1906 to 1957. Herbarium is at World Museum Liverpool. Though he never actually completed the flora it is called Travis's Flora of South Lancashire , completed in 1963 by Savidge, Heywood & Vera Gordon, and published by the Liverpool Botanical Society.
Born in Toxteth but then lived in Kirkdale and finally Walton, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married.
Obituary is in Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles 1960 p 470 -473.
He published on many topics - flowering plants, bryophytes, lichens and fungi.
Some of his Publications
SAVIDGE, J. P., HEYWOOD, V. H. & GORDON, V. (1963). Travis’s Flora of South Lancashire. Liverpool Botanical Society, Liverpool.
WHELDON, J. A. & TRAVIS, W. G. (1913). Parnassia palustris var. condensata. J. Bot. , Lond., 51: p85-89.
TRAVIS, W. G. & WHELDON, J. A. (1912). A new variety of Parnassia palustris. J. Bot., Lond. , 50: 254-257.
Travis, W.G. (1909). Plant remains in peat of the Shirdley Hill Sands at Aintree, South Lancashire. Transactions of the Liverpool Botanical Society. 1 p47-52.
Travis, W.G. (1922). On peaty bands in the Wallasey Sandhills. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 13. p207 - 214.
Lichenological publications
Travis, W.G. 1910. Lecanora atrynea Nyl. in South Lancashire. Lancashire Nat. 3, 26: 71.
Travis, W.G. 1915. Cheshire lichens. The Journal of Botany . 53: p 219. v. 53 1915 - Journal of botany, British and foreign. - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)
Travis, W.G. 1947. A new British lichen: Polyblastia wheldoni sp.nova. The North Western Naturalist . 22, 3/4: p 210-211.
Wheldon, J.A. and W.G. Travis. 1913. A new Lancashire lichen. Lancashire Nat. 6: p 324.
Wheldon, J.A. and W.G. Travis. 1913. Lichens of Arran. The Journal of Botany 51: p248-253. v. 51 1913 - Journal of botany, British and foreign. - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)
Wheldon, J.A. and W.G. Travis. 1915: The lichens of South Lancashire. Journ. Linn. Soc. 43: p 87-136.
His brother C.B.Travis was a noted geologist. They worked together on some of the work such as
Travis, C. B. and W.G. (1913). On plant remains in postglacial gravels at Seaforth, Liverpool. Lancashire Naturalist 6 p 49-51.
Some of C.B. s work was on plants in the coastal peat beds and the main references are below
Travis, C. B. 1920. Coastal Changes at the Alt Mouth. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 8(1), p52-64
Travis, C. B. 1926. The Peat and Forest Bed of the South West Lancashire Coast. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 14, p263-77
Travis, C. B. 1929. The Peat and Forest Beds of Leasowe, Cheshire. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 15, p157-178.
29th April 1877 – 29th March 1958.
A patent agent by profession, Secretary of South Lancashire Flora Committee from 1906 to 1957. Herbarium is at World Museum Liverpool. Though he never actually completed the flora it is called Travis's Flora of South Lancashire , completed in 1963 by Savidge, Heywood & Vera Gordon, and published by the Liverpool Botanical Society.
Born in Toxteth but then lived in Kirkdale and finally Walton, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married.
Obituary is in Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles 1960 p 470 -473.
He published on many topics - flowering plants, bryophytes, lichens and fungi.
Some of his Publications
SAVIDGE, J. P., HEYWOOD, V. H. & GORDON, V. (1963). Travis’s Flora of South Lancashire. Liverpool Botanical Society, Liverpool.
WHELDON, J. A. & TRAVIS, W. G. (1913). Parnassia palustris var. condensata. J. Bot. , Lond., 51: p85-89.
TRAVIS, W. G. & WHELDON, J. A. (1912). A new variety of Parnassia palustris. J. Bot., Lond. , 50: 254-257.
Travis, W.G. (1909). Plant remains in peat of the Shirdley Hill Sands at Aintree, South Lancashire. Transactions of the Liverpool Botanical Society. 1 p47-52.
Travis, W.G. (1922). On peaty bands in the Wallasey Sandhills. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 13. p207 - 214.
Lichenological publications
Travis, W.G. 1910. Lecanora atrynea Nyl. in South Lancashire. Lancashire Nat. 3, 26: 71.
Travis, W.G. 1915. Cheshire lichens. The Journal of Botany . 53: p 219. v. 53 1915 - Journal of botany, British and foreign. - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)
Travis, W.G. 1947. A new British lichen: Polyblastia wheldoni sp.nova. The North Western Naturalist . 22, 3/4: p 210-211.
Wheldon, J.A. and W.G. Travis. 1913. A new Lancashire lichen. Lancashire Nat. 6: p 324.
Wheldon, J.A. and W.G. Travis. 1913. Lichens of Arran. The Journal of Botany 51: p248-253. v. 51 1913 - Journal of botany, British and foreign. - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)
Wheldon, J.A. and W.G. Travis. 1915: The lichens of South Lancashire. Journ. Linn. Soc. 43: p 87-136.
His brother C.B.Travis was a noted geologist. They worked together on some of the work such as
Travis, C. B. and W.G. (1913). On plant remains in postglacial gravels at Seaforth, Liverpool. Lancashire Naturalist 6 p 49-51.
Some of C.B. s work was on plants in the coastal peat beds and the main references are below
Travis, C. B. 1920. Coastal Changes at the Alt Mouth. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 8(1), p52-64
Travis, C. B. 1926. The Peat and Forest Bed of the South West Lancashire Coast. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 14, p263-77
Travis, C. B. 1929. The Peat and Forest Beds of Leasowe, Cheshire. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 15, p157-178.
Arthur Augustine Dallman
Born in Cumberland on 9th April 1883 he was a botanist, cecidologist (plant galls) and editor of the North Western Naturalist. No obituary was ever published. He died In Colwyn Bay on 20th March 1963. Educated in Preston at the Harris Institute, moving to Liverpool in 1901 to take up a post as science demonstrator at Liverpool College and then at other institutions over the next few years. He was appointed Science Master at Bebington College in 1904 and then Holt School in 1908 before moving to take up a post at Holme Grammar School, Manchester in 1917. From 1920 to 1930 he taught at Mexborough School in Doncaster.
He wrote on natural history under the pseudonym “Twayblade” for the Liverpool Courier. He edited North Western Naturalist from 1926 to 1955.
One of the initiators of the Liverpool Botanical Society he was the first secretary and became President in 1914 and 1918.
Wrote papers on the flowering plants of Denbighshire and Flintshire in the Journal of Botany 1906 to 1913, and he was supposedly writing a Flora, but one never appeared. He also studied Plant Galls and wrote many papers on this subject. Further information can be found in
Greenwood, B.D. (1977). The papers of Arthur Augustine Dallman (1883- 1963). Journal of the Society Bibliography Natural History. 8 (2). p176-179.
Some Publications
Dallman, A.A, (1907). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 45 p 138 - 153. http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1907.pdf
Dallman A.A. (1908). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 46. p 187-196, 222-230.
http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1908.pdf
Dallman, A.A, (1910). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany . 48. p 40-53, 73-77, 90-98.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109214#page/1/mode/1up
Dallman A.A. (1910). Flintshire Plants. Journal of Botany 48. p 204-5.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109214#page/250/mode/1up
Dallman A.A.(1911). Further Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 49. p 8-14.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36195#page/18/mode/1up
Dallman A.A. (1913). Further Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 51. supplement p1-43.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35901#page/495/mode/1up
Dallman, A. A. (1935) West Yorkshire Flowering Plants. North Western Naturalist, 10 (3): 265-266.
Dallman, A.A. (Ed.) (1939) The vegetation of Craven in Wharfedale, with its adjacencies in
Aire and Ribble: an analysis of its flora in advent and decline, by F.A. Lees. The Northwestern
Naturalist (supplement) 14, 1-111.
Dallman, AA. And Wood, M.H. (1909). A bibliographical list of deceased Lancashire Botanists. Transactions of the Liverpool Botanical Society. [alphabetical list with brief biography and publications list).
Plant Galls
Dallman,A.A, (1919). Some Zooecidia of South Denbighshire. Naturalist. : p 164-166. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/197963#page/188/mode/1up
Dallman,A.A, (1921). Plant Galls (Zooecidia) of Cheshire North Western Naturalist. 14: p 50-70, 97-125.
Dallman, A.A. (1925). New or noteworthy british galls. Journal of Botany. 63, p 98-104.
http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1925.pdf
Dallman, A.A. (1929). New or noteworthy british galls. Journal of Botany. 67, p161-170. http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1929.pdf
More of his Cumbrian References are at http://www.carlislenats.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/Bibliography%20Cumb%20nat%20hist%20MAY%202010.pdf (page 117)
Archives Are at National Museums Liverpool. 1899 - 1959. Correspondence, diaries, photographic glass slides and papers. Acquired 21st May 1963 by purchase. His herbaria are at Liverpool and Manchester http://herbariaunited.org/collector/1571/
Born in Cumberland on 9th April 1883 he was a botanist, cecidologist (plant galls) and editor of the North Western Naturalist. No obituary was ever published. He died In Colwyn Bay on 20th March 1963. Educated in Preston at the Harris Institute, moving to Liverpool in 1901 to take up a post as science demonstrator at Liverpool College and then at other institutions over the next few years. He was appointed Science Master at Bebington College in 1904 and then Holt School in 1908 before moving to take up a post at Holme Grammar School, Manchester in 1917. From 1920 to 1930 he taught at Mexborough School in Doncaster.
He wrote on natural history under the pseudonym “Twayblade” for the Liverpool Courier. He edited North Western Naturalist from 1926 to 1955.
One of the initiators of the Liverpool Botanical Society he was the first secretary and became President in 1914 and 1918.
Wrote papers on the flowering plants of Denbighshire and Flintshire in the Journal of Botany 1906 to 1913, and he was supposedly writing a Flora, but one never appeared. He also studied Plant Galls and wrote many papers on this subject. Further information can be found in
Greenwood, B.D. (1977). The papers of Arthur Augustine Dallman (1883- 1963). Journal of the Society Bibliography Natural History. 8 (2). p176-179.
Some Publications
Dallman, A.A, (1907). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 45 p 138 - 153. http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1907.pdf
Dallman A.A. (1908). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 46. p 187-196, 222-230.
http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1908.pdf
Dallman, A.A, (1910). Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany . 48. p 40-53, 73-77, 90-98.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109214#page/1/mode/1up
Dallman A.A. (1910). Flintshire Plants. Journal of Botany 48. p 204-5.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109214#page/250/mode/1up
Dallman A.A.(1911). Further Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 49. p 8-14.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36195#page/18/mode/1up
Dallman A.A. (1913). Further Notes on the Flora of Flintshire. Journal of Botany 51. supplement p1-43.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35901#page/495/mode/1up
Dallman, A. A. (1935) West Yorkshire Flowering Plants. North Western Naturalist, 10 (3): 265-266.
Dallman, A.A. (Ed.) (1939) The vegetation of Craven in Wharfedale, with its adjacencies in
Aire and Ribble: an analysis of its flora in advent and decline, by F.A. Lees. The Northwestern
Naturalist (supplement) 14, 1-111.
Dallman, AA. And Wood, M.H. (1909). A bibliographical list of deceased Lancashire Botanists. Transactions of the Liverpool Botanical Society. [alphabetical list with brief biography and publications list).
Plant Galls
Dallman,A.A, (1919). Some Zooecidia of South Denbighshire. Naturalist. : p 164-166. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/197963#page/188/mode/1up
Dallman,A.A, (1921). Plant Galls (Zooecidia) of Cheshire North Western Naturalist. 14: p 50-70, 97-125.
Dallman, A.A. (1925). New or noteworthy british galls. Journal of Botany. 63, p 98-104.
http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1925.pdf
Dallman, A.A. (1929). New or noteworthy british galls. Journal of Botany. 67, p161-170. http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Journal_of_Botany_1929.pdf
More of his Cumbrian References are at http://www.carlislenats.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/Bibliography%20Cumb%20nat%20hist%20MAY%202010.pdf (page 117)
Archives Are at National Museums Liverpool. 1899 - 1959. Correspondence, diaries, photographic glass slides and papers. Acquired 21st May 1963 by purchase. His herbaria are at Liverpool and Manchester http://herbariaunited.org/collector/1571/
Professor Robert John Harvey-Gibson CBE, MA, DSc, FRSE, FLS, DL, JP.
2nd November 1860 - 3rd June 1929
From Aberdeen the son of Reverend Robert Gibson, he studied at Aberdeen Grammar School, then at the universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Strasbourg. His first job was as a biology demonstrator at Edinburgh University, then moving to University College, Liverpool (later renamed Liverpool University). He stayed there for the rest of his career first becoming a lecturer then becoming Professor of Biology / Botany in 1894. There he oversaw the Hartley Botanical Institute. He was active in various societies including as President of LBS in 1906/7. His knowledge was also used as an examiner for both the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the University of New Zealand.
His early studies were firstly in Zoology, before concentrating on Botany. Marine algae was one of his study areas with research in Liverpool Bay, Oban and the Red Sea and even New Zealand (his paper (1893). On some marine algae from New Zealand. Journal of Botany 31: p161-167, plate. 335. link here
He was very good illustrator enhancing his published works including his work on Selanginella in Annals of Botany.
He wrote many academic textbooks on botany and biological science and some of his works such as Outlines of Botany, Outlines of the History of Botany and The Elements of Botany have been updated and reprinted long after his death.
He was made Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in March 1914; he was also a JP. Service in the First World War saw him in the South African Military Command at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, for which, in 1919, he recieved a military CBE.
He lived at 22 Falkner Square, Liverpool and married Eda Lawrie. He retired in 1921 and lived in Grasmere, Leamington and finally Glasgow where he died on 3rd June 1929.
a page on Wikipedia is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_John_Harvey_Gibson
An obituary is here
Some of his important works include 1889 A Textbook of Elementary Biology available here. 1891 A revised list of Marine Algae. 1900 Codium. 1907 Lectures on Plant Physiology (translation from the German of Dr. Ludwig Just). 1908 Biology 1919 Outlines on the History of Botany available here. 1926 A Short History of Botany and 1936 The Master Thinkers: Vignettes in the History of Science.
2nd November 1860 - 3rd June 1929
From Aberdeen the son of Reverend Robert Gibson, he studied at Aberdeen Grammar School, then at the universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Strasbourg. His first job was as a biology demonstrator at Edinburgh University, then moving to University College, Liverpool (later renamed Liverpool University). He stayed there for the rest of his career first becoming a lecturer then becoming Professor of Biology / Botany in 1894. There he oversaw the Hartley Botanical Institute. He was active in various societies including as President of LBS in 1906/7. His knowledge was also used as an examiner for both the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the University of New Zealand.
His early studies were firstly in Zoology, before concentrating on Botany. Marine algae was one of his study areas with research in Liverpool Bay, Oban and the Red Sea and even New Zealand (his paper (1893). On some marine algae from New Zealand. Journal of Botany 31: p161-167, plate. 335. link here
He was very good illustrator enhancing his published works including his work on Selanginella in Annals of Botany.
He wrote many academic textbooks on botany and biological science and some of his works such as Outlines of Botany, Outlines of the History of Botany and The Elements of Botany have been updated and reprinted long after his death.
He was made Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in March 1914; he was also a JP. Service in the First World War saw him in the South African Military Command at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, for which, in 1919, he recieved a military CBE.
He lived at 22 Falkner Square, Liverpool and married Eda Lawrie. He retired in 1921 and lived in Grasmere, Leamington and finally Glasgow where he died on 3rd June 1929.
a page on Wikipedia is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_John_Harvey_Gibson
An obituary is here
Some of his important works include 1889 A Textbook of Elementary Biology available here. 1891 A revised list of Marine Algae. 1900 Codium. 1907 Lectures on Plant Physiology (translation from the German of Dr. Ludwig Just). 1908 Biology 1919 Outlines on the History of Botany available here. 1926 A Short History of Botany and 1936 The Master Thinkers: Vignettes in the History of Science.
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Vera Gordon
25th May 1918 - 14th September 2006 President of Liverpool Botanical Society 1952/53 and Secretary from 1940 to 2000. Vera's obituary is in Watsonia 26: page 511 - 512. (2007) at http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Wats26p511.pdf and in the LBS Parnassia Update at https://livbotsoc.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/2/7/26276345/parnupsmall.pdf The talk by Joan Vincent on Vera and the LBS is here jv_talk_on_vera.doc A more personal recollection by Pat Lockwood "Knowing Vera" is here Her herbarium is at World Museum Liverpool. http://herbariaunited.org/collector/2323/ |
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The details of many other botanists can be found in Dallman, A.A. and Wood, M.H. (1909). A biographical list of deceased Lancashire botanists. With a chronological enumeration of their published works and papers. Transactions of Liverpool Botanical Society 1 p 54- 109. (An alphabetical list of local botanists with brief notes on biography and publication titles. )