Posts Tagged ‘Darwin medal’
Frederick Orpen Bower: Pioneer of Botanical Morphology and Evolutionary Plant Science
The Man Honored by the Bower Building November 4, 1855 Today is the birthday of the English botanist and Primitive Plant Expert Frederick Orpen Bower. Bower served as the Regius chair of botany at the University of Glasgow “Glahs-go.” When he arrived in 1885, the department was housed in two rooms, and the herbarium was…
Read MoreThe Pressing Matter of Leonard Cockayne: New Zealand’s Botanical Genius
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 8, 1934 On this day, dear readers, the botanical world lost one of its most brilliant minds when Leonard Cockayne departed this mortal realm at the venerable age of 79. One might…
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