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Authorised form of nameHemsley; William Botting (1843 - 1924)
Dates1843 - 1924
Place of birthEast Hoathley, Sussex, England
Date of birth29 December 1843
Date of death07/10/1924
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
LLD
Career:
Started work as Improver, then Assistant for India in the Herbarium, finally Keeper of Herbarium and Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; wrote botanical works
Memberships:
ALS; FLS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1889
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1925 vol 98 pp i-ix signed by D P
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/770897
Royal Society codeNA1455
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1889/10Hemsley, William Botting: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/002032Hemsley, William Bottingnd
NLB/3/445Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 June 1889
NLB/10/687Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 January 1895
RR/17/50Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'On the Julianiaceae: a new natural order of plants' by William Botting Hemsley[October 1906]
NLB/16/57Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W T Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1898
NLB/16/816Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W B Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1898
NLB/30/702Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society 9 May 1905
NLB/35/146Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society25 April 1907
NLB/35/119Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society18 April 1907
NLB/35/240Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society3 May 1907
NLB/35/199Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1907
NLB/34/321Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society3 January 1907
NLB/34/229Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society[December 1906]
NLB/37/202Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] B [Botting] Hemsley FRS14 February 1908
NLB/59/274Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William] Botting Hemsley, FRS24 August 1920
NLB/54/91Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William Botting] Hemsley, FRS5 February 1917
NLB/59/595Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [William] Botting Hemsley, FRS23 October 1920
RR/17/49Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'On the Julianiaceae: a new natural order of plants' by William Botting Hemsley[October 1906]
NLB/67/145Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society1 November 1924
NLB/10/685Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Botting Hemsley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 January 1895
NLB/11/868Copy letter from Michael Foster, to George Francis Scott-Elliot22 October 1895
MC/14/211Letter from [William Turner] Thiselton-Dyer, Kew, to [John] Evans8 May 1887
NLB/1/460Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society13 June 1887
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
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