William Hemsley (botanist)

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Name William Hemsley		Role Botanist
Died October 7, 1924, Broadstairs, United Kingdom Books An Enumeration of All the Plants Known from China Proper, Formosa, Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the Island of Hongkong Together with Their Distribution and Synonymy

William Botting Hemsley (East Hoathly 29 December 1843 – 7 October 1924 Kent) was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient.

He was born in East Hoathly, Sussex and in 1860 started work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as an Improver, then Assistant for India in the Herbarium, finally Keeper of Herbarium and Library. He wrote a number of botanical works.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1889.

Publications

Biologica Centrali-Americana Botany. Vol. I , 1879–1888

Biologica Centrali-Americana Botany. Vol. III, 1882–1886

Botany of the Bermudas and various other Islands of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans, 1885

Botany of Juan Fernandez, South-eastern Molluccas, and the Admiralty Islands, 1885

An Enumeration of All the Plants Known from China Proper, Formosa, Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the Island of Hong Kong. with Francis B. Forbes, 1887

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