Sydney Howard Vines
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Sydney Howard Vines FRS[1] (31 December 1849 – 4 April 1934) was a British botanist and academic. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford University from 1888 to 1919,[2] and served as president of the Linnean Society of London from 1900 to 1904.[3] He directed the publication of the Annals of Botany from 1887 to 1899.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Vines studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, obtaining his Bachelor of Science in 1873, Bachelor of Arts in 1876, Master of Arts in 1879, and his doctorate in 1883.[4] He became a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1885.[3]
Works
[edit]Vines' works include:
- "On the Apparatus Relating to Vegetable Physiology". Science Lectures at South Kensington. Vol. I. London: Macmillan & Company. 1878. pp. 249–263.
- Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical, 2nd edition, (1882), edited, with an appendix, by Sydney H. Vines, from the German of Lehrbuch der Botanik by Julius von Sachs
- Lectures on the physiology of plants. University press. 1886.
- A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany. BiblioBazaar. 1887. ISBN 978-0-554-86700-7.
- A Student's Text-book of Botany. S. Sonnenschein & Company. 1896; 821 pages
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- An Elementary Text-Book of Botany ... With 397 Illustrations. London. 1905; 611 pages; updated and abridged version of A Student's Text-book of Botany
- An Account of the Herbarium of the University of Oxford. 1897.
- An Elementary Text-book of Botany: From the German of Dr. K. Prantl (1898), The Dillenian Herbaria, (1907).
Additional information
[edit]His parents' birthnames were William Reynolds and Jessie Robertson. He married an Agnes Bertha Perry in 1884.[3] The Vines, Oxford was built for him.[3] He was the father of the author and academic Sherard Vines.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ A. B. R. (1934). "Sydney Howard Vines. 1849-1934". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (3): 185–188. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1934.0003.
- ^ "Prof. S. H. Vines, F.R.S". Nature. 133 (3363): 562. 1934. Bibcode:1934Natur.133S.562.. doi:10.1038/133562c0.
- ^ a b c d e Allen G. Debus (dir.) (1968). World Who’s Who in Science. Debus (ed.) (1968). World Who's Who in Science. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Marquis-Who’s Who (Chicago) : xvi + 1855 p. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present.-Marquis Who's Who (Chicago): xvi + 1855 p.
- ^ "Vines, Sydney Howard (VNS872SH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Vines.
- ^ Snell, William (2007). "James Cousins and Sherard Vines at Keio University: 1919-20; 1923-28" (PDF). The Hiyoshi Review of English Studies. 50: 45.
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