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See also:LINDLEY, See also:JOHN (1799-1865) , See also:English botanist, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:February 1799 at Catton, near See also:Norwich, where his See also:father, See also:George Lindley, author of A See also:Guide to the See also:Orchard and See also:Kitchen See also:Garden, owned a nursery garden. He was educated at Norwich See also:grammar school. His first publication, in 1819, a See also:translation of the Analyse du See also:fruit of L. C. M. See also:Richard, was followed in 182o by an See also:original Monographia Rosarum, with descriptions of new See also:species, and drawings executed by himself, and in 1821 by Monographia Digitalium, and by " Observations on Pomaceae," contributed to the Linnean Society. Shortly afterwards he went to See also:London, where he was engaged by J. C. Loudon to write the descriptive portion of the See also:Encyclopaedia of See also:Plants. In his labours on this undertaking, which was completed in 1829, he became convinced of the superiority of the " natural " See also:system of A. L. de See also:Jussieu, as distinguished from the " artificial " system of See also:Linnaeus followed in the Encyclopaedia; the conviction found expression in A Synopsis of See also:British See also:Flora, arranged according to the Natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order _(1829) and in An Introduction lc the Natural System of See also:Botany (183o). In 1829 Lindley, who since 1822 had been assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society, was appointed to the See also:chair of botany in University See also:College, London, which he retained till 186o; he lectured also on botany from 1831 at the Royal Institution, and from 1836 at the Botanic Gardens, See also:Chelsea., During his professoriate he wrote many scientific and popular See also:works, besides contributing largely to the Botanical See also:Register, of which he was editor for many years, and to the Gardener's See also:Chronicle, in which he had See also:charge of the horticultural See also:department from 1841. He was a See also:fellow of the Royal, Linnean and See also:Geological See also:Societies. He died at Turnham See also:Green on the 1st of See also:November 1865.
Besides those already mentioned, his works include An Outline of the First Principles of See also:Horticulture (1832), An Outline of the Structure and See also:Physiology of Plants (1832), A Natural System of Botany (1836), The Fossil Flora of See also:Great See also:Britain (with See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Hutton, 1831-1837), Flora Medica (1838), Theory of Horticulture (184o), The See also:Vegetable See also:Kingdom (1846), Folic; Orchidacea (1852), Descriptive Botany (1858).
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