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| Introduction | 1 |
| Robert Morison 1620-1683 and John Ray 1627-1705. By Sydney Howard Vines | 8 |
| Nehemiah Grew 1641-1712. By Agnes Arber | 44 |
| Stephen Hales 1677-1761. By Francis Darwin | 65 |
| John Hill 1716-1775. By T. G. Hill | 84 |
| Robert Brown 1773-1858. By J. B. Farmer | 108 |
| Sir William Hooker 1785-1865. By F. O. Bower | 126 |
| John Stevens Henslow 1796-1861. By George Henslow | 151 |
| John Lindley 1799-1865. By Frederick Keeble | 164 |
| William Griffith 1810-1845. By W. H. Lang | 178 |
| Arthur Henfrey 1819-1859. By F. W. Oliver | 192 |
| William Henry Harvey 1811-1866. By R. Lloyd Praeger | 204 |
| Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889. By George Massee | 225 |
| Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert 1817-1901. By W. B. Bottomley | 233 |
| William Crawford Williamson 1816-1895. By Dukinfield H. Scott | 243 |
| Harry Marshall Ward 1854-1906. By Sir William Thiselton-Dyer | 261 |
| A sketch of the Professors of Botany in Edinburgh from 1670 until 1887. By Isaac Bayley Balfour | 280 |
| Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817-1911. By F. O. Bower | 302 |
| Index | 324 |
