| RefNo | EC/1920/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 181; A03404 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Hill, Sir Arthur William: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse |
| Citation | Assistant-Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. Formerly Fellow and Dean of King's College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Botany. Distinguished as a botanist by his researches on protoplasmic continuity in plants, and on various problems of systematic and economic botany. Has travelled in South America, Algeria, and the West Indies [Caribbean] for purposes of botanical investigation. Author of: - 'The Distribution and Character of Connecting Threads in the Tissues of Pinus Sylvestris and other Allied Species' (Phil Trans, 1901); 'The Histology of the Sieve-Tubes of Pinus' (Ann Bot, 1901); 'The Histology of the Endosperm during Germination in Tamus communis and Galium Tricorne' (wirth W Gardiner) (Proc Camb Phil Soc, 1902); 'The Histology of the Sieve-Tubes of Angiosperms' (Ann Bot, 1908); 'On the Structure and Affinities of a Lepidodendroid Stem' (with A C Seward) (Trans Roy Soc Edin, 1900); 'The Morphology and Seedling Structure of the Geophilous Species of Peperomia, together with some views on the Origin of Monocotyledons' (Ann Bot, 1906); 'Floral Mechanism of the Genus Sebaea' (ibid, 1913); 'Studies in Seed Germination - the Genus Marsh' (ibid, 1916); 'The History of Primula Obconica under Cultivation' (Journ of Genetics, 1912); 'Notes on a Journey in Bolivia and Peru around Lake Titicaca' (Scottish Geol Journ, 1905); 'South America in its relation to Horticulture' (Journ Roy Hort Soc, 1911); 'A Visit to the West Indies [Caribbean]' (Kew Bulletin, 1912); 'The Acaulescent Species of Malvastrum' (Journ Linn Soc, 1909); 'A Revision of the Geophilous Species of Peperomia, (Ann Bot, 1907); 'Gentianaceae' (Flora Capensis, 1909); 'Santalaceae' (ibid, 1915); 'The Genus Thesium in South Africa' (Kew Bull 1915); 'The History and Functions of Botantic Gardens' (Ann Missouri Bot Gardens, 1915). |
| Proposers | H Wager; W Gardiner; A C Seward; F O Bower; W Bateson; L Doncaster; J B Farmer; V H Blackman; H T Brown; H G Plimmer; David Prain; I B Balfour; A B Rendle; O Stapf; H Woodward; J S Gamble |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1724 | Hill; Sir; Arthur William (1875 - 1941) | 1875 - 1941 |