William Borrer: Correspondence and notes 19th century

Berkeley, M. J. (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889

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Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1899) of King's Cliff, Wansford and Sibbertoft, Harborough, England, Anglican minister and founder of British mycology. From the finding aid for M.A. Curtis Papers, 1720-1952, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Libraries Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley; born 1 April 1803, Benefield, East Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England; died 30 July 1889, Sibbertoft, Daventry District,...

Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864

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Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became ...

Jenner, Edward, 1803-1872

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Babington, Charles Cardale, 1808-1895

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Epithet: FRS, Professor of Botany at Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x000257 ...

Lindley, John, 1799-1865

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Borrer, William, 1781-1862

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Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871

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James de Carle Sowerby was a natural-history illustrator, naturalist, author, and entrepreneur, and the secretary of the Royal Botanic Society. JDCS and his extended family produced independent works and journals, learned-societies' journals, and illustrations for other scientists. From the guide to the Papers of the Sowerby family of scientific illustrators., 1826-1865, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections) ...

Borrer, William

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William Borrer (1781-1862), botanist, was born at Henfield, Sussex, on 13 June 1781, and educated at private schools at Hurstpierpoint and Carshalton, Surrey. He left school early, and received further education from tutors. Borrer travelled around Britain collecting species of plants, and made contributions to botanical publications. He was a Fellow of the Royal, Linnean and Wernerian Societies. He died at Henfield on 10 January 1862. From the guide to the William Borrer: Correspond...