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Absorption, Aristotelian views on, 68 ━━ Grew and, 58 ━━ Hales and, 73–76 ━━ Mariotte and, 68 Adanson, Plant families and, 41 Agassiz, appreciation of, 215, 319 Agriculture, investigations in, 234, 236–237 ━━ physiology and, 7 ━━ Theophrastus and, 9 Algae, Berkeley on British, 226 ━━ collection of, 214, 216 ━━ Harvey on, 208, 210-212, 216 ━━ systematic work on, 202 ━━ Williamson and, 252 Algal floras, 219 Alston, Charles, King's Botanist, 283–284 ━━ Hales and, 285-286 ━━ investigations of, 285 ━━ publications of, 286 Alternation of generations, 188–189, 198 Amman, Morison's method and, 26 Anabaena filaments, Griffith on, 190, 196 Anatomical method, W. Hooker and, 147–148 Anatomy, Balfour and comparative, 262 ━━ Founders of, 2, 6, 44, 63, 67 ━━ Grew and plant, 47–57 ━━ Henfrey and Monocotyledon, 199 ━━ Hill and plant, 93, 94, 95 Annals of Botany, Ward and, 266 Annual rings, J. Hill and, 94 Antarctic flora, J. D. Hooker and, 305, 311–312 Anthrax, Ward on, 272 Apical growth, Nägeli and Leitgeb on, 135 Apogamy, Alston and, 286 Aquatic fungi, Ward on, 265 Aquatic Myxomycete, Ward and, 265 Arber, Agnes, on Grew, 44-64 ━━ Newell, on Primofilices, 257 Arboretum, founding of Edinburgh, 300 Archaeology, Williamson and, 249 Archegonia, discovery in Ferns of, 196-198 Aristotle, botanical writings of, 8 Aristotle, value of work of, 15 ━━ physiology and, 68 Ascent of sap, Grew's explanation of, 58 Asclepiadaceae, R. Brown on the, 114-116 Assimilation, Hales on, 80

Bacteria, action of light on, 273 Bacteriology, Ward on, 265, 271–273 Baker, J. Hill's quarrels with, 89-91 ━━ Synopsis Filicum and, 146 Balanophoraceae, Griffith on the, 186 ━━ J. D. Hooker and the, 308 Balfour, Andrew, pioneer work of, 281 ━━ J. Bayley, on the Edinburgh Professors, 280–301 ━━ ━━ on the Ginger-beer plant, 269 ━━ John Hutton, life of, 293-300 ━━ ━━ Edinburgh Professorship and, 293–295 ━━ ━━ at Glasgow, 295 ━━ ━━ administrative work of, 295 ━━ ━━ teaching methods of, 299 Banks, Sir Joseph, W. Hooker and, 129 ━━ ━━ R. Brown and, 110–111 ━━ ━━ on "rust" disease, 275 Banksian collections, R. Brown and, 112–123, 134 de Bary, on potato disease, 266 ━━ on "rust" disease, 27 ━━ Ward's visit to, 264 Basidia, Berkeley's researches on, 230 Bauer, W. Hooker and, 144–145 Bauhin, Caspar, Pinax of, 14–15 ━━ ━━ and John, Morison on, 20 Bean, collections of, 248 ━━ on Yorkshire Fossil Flora, 247 Bentham, collaboration with Hooker, 313 ━━ bequest of, 144 ━━ collections of, 140 ━━ Herbarium of, 310 Berkeley, Miles Joseph, life of, 225–232 ━━ ━━ fungal morphology and, 230–231 ━━ W. Hooker on, 227 ━━ as naturalist, 225–226