George Simonds Boulger
George Simonds Boulger ( 1853 - May 4, 1922 in Richmond upon Thames ) was a British botanist and author . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Boulger ".
Life
Boulger, the son of a doctor, studied at Epsom College and trained in law at Middle Temple in London. In 1876 he became professor of botany at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester , which he stayed for 30 years. He was also a lecturer in botany at the City of London College from 1884 and at the Imperial Institute in London from 1917.
Boulger wrote many popular science books on plants and geology and was Kew Gardens correspondent for The Times on botany.
He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London , the Royal Horticultural Society and the Geological Society of London , a member of the Selborne Society and the Essex Field Club.
Fonts
- The Uses of Plants, London: Roper and Drowley 1889, reprinted Cambridge University Press 2014, Archives
- Familiar Trees, London: Cassel 1907, Archives
- with James Britten : Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists, London: West, Newman and Co. 1893, Archives
- with Jean Allen Owen: The Country Month by Month, London: Bliss, Sands and Foster 1894, Archive
- Elementary Geology, William Collins 1896 (reprint of The first book of geology by WSDavis)
- with CA Johns: Flowers of the Field, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1905
- Flowers of the Wood,
- Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the Timbers of Commerce, London: Arnold 1902, 2nd edition 1908, Archives
- with Robert Bentley: Botany, London 1910
- Plant Geography, London: Dent 1912, Archives
- with Ida Southwell Perrin: British Flowering Plants, London: Bernard Quaritch, 4 volumes, 1913, 1914 (watercolors by Perrin)
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| SURNAME | Boulger, George Simonds |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1853 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1922 |
| Place of death | Richmond upon Thames |