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RefNoEC/1907/15
Previous numbersCert XII, 250
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TitleRidley, Henry Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationDirector of Gardens and Forests, Straits Settlements. Mr Ridley has made numerous contributions to Botanical knowledge, of which the following are among the more important: - 'teratological Notes on Plants' (Journ Linn Soc, Botany, vol xx, 1884); 'Cyperaceae of the West Coast of Africa in the Welsitsch Herbarium' (Trans Linn Soc, vol xxii, 1884); 'Notes on the New and Rare Monocotyledonous Plants from Madagascar' (Journ Linn Soc, vol xx,1884); 'The Freshwater Hydrocharideae of africa and its Islands' (ibid, vol xxii, 1886); 'Botany of the Roraima Expedition' (Trans Linn Soc, vol ii, 1887: Orchidaceae, Cyperaceae); 'Notes on Self-Fertilisation and Cleistogamy in Orchids' (Journ Linn Soc); 'Botany and Geology of Fernando de Noronha' (ibid, Botany, vol xxvii, 1890); 'The Grasses and Sedges of the Malay Peninsula' (Journ Roy Asiatic Soc, Straits Branch, vol xxiii, 1891); 'Flora of the East Coast of the Malay Peninsula' (Trans Linn Soc, vol iii, 1893); 'Orchideae and Apostasiaceae of the Malay Peninsula' (Journ Linn Soc, vol xxxii, 1894); 'Two New Species of Thismia' (Annals of Botany, vol ix, 1895); 'Enumeration of Orchids from Borneo' (Journ Linn Soc, vol xxi, 1896).
ProposersS H Vines; F O Bower; I B Balfour; J W H Trail; W Carruthers; Joseph D Hooker; [C B Clarke]; H Woodward; William T Thiselton-Dyer; D Prain; J S Gamble
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Ridley, Henry Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1775Ridley; Henry Nicholas (1855 - 1956)1855 - 1956
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