Botanist Collection (page 3)

John Stevens Henslow, English botanist, geologist and clergyman, 1861. Henslow (1796-1861) was professor of mineralogy (1822-1827) and of botany (1827-1861) at Cambridge

Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society (PRS), botanist, 1800s. Artist: Thomas Philips
Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society (PRS), botanist, 1800s. Banks travelled to Newfoundland in 1766 on an expedition to collect plants

John Ray, English naturalist, 1680s. Artist: Abraham de Blois
John Ray, English naturalist, 1680s. Illustrated plate from the 1703 edition of Methodus Pantarum Nova by John Ray, first published in 1682. Ray was a naturalist and the pioneer of plant taxonomy

Daniel Rutherford, late 18th century. Rutherford, Scottish physicist and botanist, became professor of botany at Edinburgh University in 1786. His portrait is framed at the top by flowers

Charles Plumier, French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, 1762. Plumier (1646-1702) was born in Marseilles. Appointed royal botanist by Louis XIV in 1693

Medal of Paracelsus
German medal of Paracelsus, now in the British Museum

A German medal depicting Paracelsus, 16th century
A German medal depicting Paracelsus (11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) from the British Museums collection

Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist, plant geographer and collector. Born in Halesworth, Suffolk, Hooker (1817-1911) served as surgeon-botanist on British Antarctic expedition of HMS Discovery

Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), Italian botanist, naturalist and physician, 1838. Aldrovandi published illustrated books on fishes, birds and insects

Michel Adanson (1727-1806), French botanist and naturalist, c1880. Adanson was an early (pre-Linnaeus) exponent of the classification of plants by natural orders

Asa Gray, American botanist, 1888. Specialist on Japanese flora and friend of Darwin. who accepted Natural Selection as force in evolution but, as devout Protestant

Jean Caspar Bauhin (1606-1659), Swiss physician and botanist. Bauhin was professor of botany at Basel University. He was appointed physician in ordinary to King Louis XIV of France in 1659

House of John Bartram (1699-1777), American botanist and agriculturist, 1884. Regarded as the Father of American botany, Bartram was one of the founder members, along with Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815), American physician and naturalist, 1896. Barton was professor of natural history and botany at the University of Philadelphia from 1789-1815

Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English botanist and plant collector, 1802. Banks sailed with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour on his expedition of 1768-1771

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