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RefNoEC/1919/14
Previous numbersCert XIII, 164; A55796
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TitleWillis, John Christopher: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse. List of publications on separate sheet attached to certificate
CitationCorr Mem Deutsch Bot Gesell. Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, 1896-1911. Late Director, Botanical Gardens, Rio, 1912-1915. Editor of Annals of Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. Author of 'Gynodioecism in the Labiatae' (three papers, Camb Phil Soc, 1892-1894); 'Natural History of the Flower' (Journ Linn Soc, 1893-1894); 'Flowers and Insects' (four papers, 1895-1906); 'Flora of Pollard Willows' (with Mr Burkitt, Camb Phil Soc, 1893). The following in Annals of Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya (1901-1911): - 'Flora of Minikoi'; 'Botany of the Maladives'; 'Revision of Podostemaceae'; 'Studies in Morphology of Podostemaceae'; 'Flora of Ritigala'; 'Some Evidence against the Theory of Natural Selection'; 'Further Evidence against Theory of Natural Selection'; 'Geographical Distribution of Dilleniaceae'; 'Hill Top Floras'; 'Revised Catalogue of Plants of Ceylon'; 'Flora of Naminakalikand'; 'Manual and Dictionary of Flowering Plants, &c' (3rd edit, 1908); 'Agriculture in the Tropics, 1908' (2nd edit, 1914); 'The Lack of Adaptation in Podostemaceae' (Proc Roy Soc, 1914); 'Origin of Podostemaceae' (Ann Bot, 1915); 'A new Family of Flowering Plants, Tristichaceae' (Journ Linn Soc, 1915); 'The Endemic Flora of Ceylon with reference to Geographical Distribution and Evolution in General' (Phil Trans, 1915).
ProposersFrancis Darwin; I B Balfour; A C Seward; S H Vines; F O Bower; O Stapf; J B Farmer; F W Oliver; H Woodward
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Willis, John Christopher: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA784Willis; John Christopher (1868 - 1958)1868 - 1958
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