MASTERS (Maxwell Tylden, 1833-1907, M.D., F.R.S., Botanist)

Autograph Letter Signed to  Alfred William BENNETT , (1833-1902, Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital), saying he does "not know how good my word may be but at least I am as good as it as witness enclosed fulfillment of promise made", 1 side 8vo., Ealing, with note "June something probably 25", slightly creased in bottom margin, faint trace of mounting on conjugate blank verso

Masters lectured on botany at St. George's Medical School, 1855-1868, and published his researches in 'Vegetable Teratology', 1869. He edited the 'Gardeners' Chronicle', was an active suppporter of the RHS, and wrote treatises on elementary botany. Bennett was lecturer in botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital. He translated and edited Justus Sachs' 'Lehrbuch der Botanik', 1875, and collaborated on 'Handbook of Cryptogamic Botany', 1889.

Item Date:  1875

Stock No:  13884      £25

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