| RefNo | EC/1889/10 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 165 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Hemsley, William Botting: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Entered the Kew Herbarium in 1863; assistance acknowledged by G Bentham, FRS, in preface to Flora Australiensis, 1863; ALS, 1875; Lecturer on Botany at St Mary's Hospital, 1876; author of numerous papers on Systematic Botany which together with his larger works have given him an authoritative position in this branch of science; author of the Botany (5 vols 4to) of the Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1879-88; joint author with Brigade-Surgeon Aitchison, FRS, of memoirs on the botanical collections of the several Afghan expeditions (Journ Linn Soc xviii, pp 29-113, 1880; xix, pp 148-200, 1882; Trans Linn Soc, 2nd Ser iii, pp 1-139, 1888); engaged by sub-committee of the Government Grant Committee to prepare the Index Florae Sinensis, an enumeration of all known Chinese plants, in course of publication (Journ Linn Soc xxiii, 1886-1888, et seq). |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: Jos D Hooker; W T Thiselton Dyer; George King; Isaac Bayley Balfour; Danl Oliver; J Gilbert Baker; F D Godman; Osbert Salvin; William Carruthers; Maxwell T Masters |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1455 | Hemsley; William Botting (1843 - 1924) | 1843 - 1924 |