Botany - Revision history

Pbarnaby: /* Nineteenth Century Expansion */

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Nineteenth Century Expansion

Pbarnaby: /* Broadening and Deepening */

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Broadening and Deepening

GButtars: /* Professor of Botany and King's Botanist (Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens) */

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Professor of Botany and King's Botanist (Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens)

GButtars at 15:59, 11 June 2014

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GButtars: /* Broadening and Deepening */

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Broadening and Deepening

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Broadening and Deepening

GButtars: /* Broadening Curriculum */

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Broadening Curriculum

GButtars: /* Nineteenth Century Expansion */

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Nineteenth Century Expansion

GButtars: /* Sources */

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Sources

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 == Nineteenth Century Expansion ==
-Rutherford's successor, [[Robert Graham (1786-1845)]], was appointed in 1820 and his early years were largely occupied with the move of the Botanic Gardens to their new home at Inverleith Row.  Numbers attending classes grew.  In his final year, deteriorating health necessitated his classes be covered by one Dr (later Sir) Joseph Dalton Hooker.  The Town Council turned Hooker down as Graham's replacement.
+Rutherford's successor, [[Robert Graham (1786-1845)]], was appointed in 1820 and his early years were largely occupied with the move of the Botanic Gardens to their new home at Inverleith Row.  Numbers attending classes grew.  In his final year, deteriorating health necessitated his classes be covered by one Dr (later Sir) Joseph Dalton Hooker.  The [[Town Council]] turned Hooker down as Graham's replacement.
 Like Graham, his successor had previously held the Chair of Botany at Glasgow.  [[John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884)]] also became Dean of the [[Faculty of Medicine]].  He built on Graham's use of expeditions and added more fieldwork to the curriculum.

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 == Broadening and Deepening ==
-Under Balfour the range of subjects available to study increased with new lecturers appointed in [[Bacteriology]], Mycology and Plant Physiology.  His father had greatly enlarged the Royal Botanical Gardens during his tenure, but Balfour completely transformed them. Having put their finances on a safer footing by transferring them to the crown, Balfour engaged himself in a major reform of the gardens, establishing a proper botanical institute, and largely redeveloping the layout of the gardens in order to have a proper arboretum, building new laboratories and improving scientific facilities.
+Under Balfour the range of subjects available to study increased with new lecturers appointed in [[Bacteriology]], [[Mycology]] and [[Plant Physiology]].  His father had greatly enlarged the Royal Botanical Gardens during his tenure, but Balfour completely transformed them. Having put their finances on a safer footing by transferring them to the crown, Balfour engaged himself in a major reform of the gardens, establishing a proper botanical institute, and largely redeveloping the layout of the gardens in order to have a proper arboretum, building new laboratories and improving scientific facilities.
 The next Professor was [[Sir William Wright Smith (1875-1956)]], appointed in 1922.

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 * [[Robert Graham (1786-1845)]], 1820-1845
 * [[John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884)]], October 22, 1845
-* [[Alexander Dickson (1836–1887)]], 1879-1887
+* [[Alexander Dickson (1836-1887)]], 1879-1887
 * [[Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922)]], 1888-1922
 * [[Sir William Wright Smith (1875-1956)]], 1922-1956

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 Like Graham, his successor had previously held the Chair of Botany at Glasgow.  [[John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884)]] also became Dean of the [[Faculty of Medicine]].  He built on Graham's use of expeditions and added more fieldwork to the curriculum.
-Next came [[Alexander Dickson (1836–1887)]], appointed in 1880.  The Chair was now simply 'of Botany'.  He too had come from Glasgow. Dickson had as Demonstrator, a young [[Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)|Patrick Geddes]].
+Next came [[Alexander Dickson (1836-1887)]], appointed in 1880.  The Chair was now simply 'of Botany'.  He too had come from Glasgow. Dickson had as Demonstrator, a young [[Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)|Patrick Geddes]].
 In 1888, [[Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922)]], was appointed to succeed Dickson.  He was the son of John Hutton Balfour (above) and the first ever student to be awarded [[Degrees|DSc]] in Botany by the [[University of Edinburgh]].  Following the establishment of the [[Faculty of Science]] in 1893, Advanced Botany could be taken as part of a Science degree, though elementary study and the subject overall remained based in the [[Faculty of Medicine]].

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 Under Balfour the range of subjects available to study increased with new lecturers appointed in [[Bacteriology]], Mycology and Plant Physiology.  His father had greatly enlarged the Royal Botanical Gardens during his tenure, but Balfour completely transformed them. Having put their finances on a safer footing by transferring them to the crown, Balfour engaged himself in a major reform of the gardens, establishing a proper botanical institute, and largely redeveloping the layout of the gardens in order to have a proper arboretum, building new laboratories and improving scientific facilities.
-The next Professor was
+The next Professor was [[Sir William Wright Smith (1875-1956)]], appointed in 1922.
 == Professors ==

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 == Sources ==
 *Ronald M. Birse, ''Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583-1993 : an illustrated history to mark the centenary of the Faculty of Science and Engineering 1893-1993'' (University of Edinburgh, 1994)
 == Archives ==

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 Like Graham, his successor had previously held the Chair of Botany at Glasgow.  [[John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884)]] also became Dean of the [[Faculty of Medicine]].  He built on Graham's use of expeditions and added more fieldwork to the curriculum.
-Next came [[Alexander Dickson (1836–1887)]], appointed in 1880.  The Chair was now simply 'of Botany'.  He too had come from Glasgow. Dickson had as Demonstrator, a young [[Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)|Patrick Geddes]].  In 1888, [[Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922)]], was appointed to succeed Dickson.  He was the son of John Hutton Balfour (above) and the first ever student to be awarded [[Degrees|DSc]] in Botany by the [[University of Edinburgh]].  Following the establishment of the [[Faculty of Science]] in 1893, Botany could be taken as part of a Science degree, though it remained based in the [[Faculty of Medicine]].
+Next came [[Alexander Dickson (1836–1887)]], appointed in 1880.  The Chair was now simply 'of Botany'.  He too had come from Glasgow. Dickson had as Demonstrator, a young [[Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)|Patrick Geddes]].  In 1888, [[Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922)]], was appointed to succeed Dickson.  He was the son of John Hutton Balfour (above) and the first ever student to be awarded [[Degrees|DSc]] in Botany by the [[University of Edinburgh]].  Following the establishment of the [[Faculty of Science]] in 1893, Advanced Botany could be taken as part of a Science degree, though elementary study and the subject overall remained based in the [[Faculty of Medicine]].
 == Broadening Curriculum ==