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Authorised form of nameBaker; John Gilbert (1834 - 1920)
Dates1834 - 1920
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGuisborough, Cleveland, England
Date of birth13 January 1834
Place of deathKew, Surrey
Date of death16/08/1920
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
Schools of the Society of Friends at Ackworth and York
Career:
First Assistant in the Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew; Lecturer in Botany, London Hospital; Keeper of the Herbarium, Kew (1890-1909)
Memberships:
FLS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1878
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1921 vol 92 pp xxiv-xxx signed by D P
CodeNA1523
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1878/04Baker, John Gilbert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/16/57Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W T Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1898
NLB/18/86Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons 13 January 1899
NLB/59/595Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William] Botting Hemsley, FRS23 October 1920
RR/14/236Detailed referee's report by John Gilbert Baker, on a paper 'On the structure and affinities of Matonia pectinata, R. BR., with notes on the geological history of the Matonineae' by Albert Charles Seward7 March 1899
RR/14/235Referee's report by John Gilbert Baker, on a paper 'On the structure and affinities of Matonia pectinata, R. BR., with notes on the geological history of the Matonineae' by Albert Charles Sewardnd [March 1899]
IM/Maull/000201Baker, John Gilbertnd
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