Life
1812-1882; b. Aberdeen; studied arts and afterwards medicine at Aberdeen
and Edinburgh Universities; lectuere in Botany at King’s College,
Aberdeen; University Librarian; Professor of Natural History at QUB on
foundation, 1849; Professor of Botany, Aberdeen 1860; fellow of Linnean
Society, 183; Hon. Fellow of Edinburgh Botanical Soc., 1877; FRS, 1881;
foremost authority on marine algae; Flora of Aberdeen; A Botanist’s
Guide to the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine; A Flora
of Ulster. DUB
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