Alfred Barton Rendle
Alfred Barton Rendle is a British Botaniste , born the January 19th 1865 with Lewisham and dead the January 11th 1938 with Lestherhead.
He is the son of John Samuel and Jane Barton born William. He studies with the St John' S College and obtains his Doctorat off Sciences at the university of London. It Marie with Maud Armstrong in 1892, union of which will be born three children. After the death of his wife in 1896, it remarie with Florence Brown in 1898, six children will be born from this new union.
He becomes botanist assisting with the British Museum in 1888. In 1894, it directs the department of botany of the Birkbeck Institute. Of 1906 with 1930, it is preserving with the British Museum. Rendle is also professor emeritus with the royal Société of horticulture. Rendle receives many honors of which the Médaille Victoria of the honor in 1917 and the Médaille Veitch. He becomes member of the Royal Society in 1909, of the Société linnéenne of London (he directs there the section of botany of 1916 to 1923 and the company of 1923 to 1927), of the Société Quekett of microscopy (which he directs of 1919 to 1921) and of good of others learned societies. It is interested in the history of botany and in particular makes appear a catalog of document concerning at the bicentenary of the birth of Carl von Linné (1707-1778).
Publications
- Catalog off the Seedlings collected by Mr. and Mrs P.A. Talbot in the Oban District South Nigeria (British Museum (Natural History), London, 1913).
- Classification off Flowering Seedlings (two volumes, Cambridge University Close, 1904, republished in 1930).
Source
- Al G. Debus (to dir.) (1968). World Who' S Who in Science. In Biographical Dictionary off Notable Scientists from Present Antiquity to the. Marquis-Who' S Who (Chicago): xvi + 1855 p.
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