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CARRUTHERS
(William, 1830-1922, F.L.S., F.R.S., F.G.S., Keeper of the Botanical Department at the British Museum, President of the Linnaean Society 1886-1890 and of the Royal Microscopical Society 1900-1901)
Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred William BENNETT ,
(1833-1902, Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital), telling him that on referring to the date of Heer's paper I find it was not so early, as I thought... so if you will say simply 'some time after'... I wrote Wright that I was going to attribute the 'strong facts' to his patriotism - and to this he does not object, 2 sides 8vo., British Museum, 21st May
Item Date: 1872
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Carruthers was Consulting Botanist to the Royal Agricultural Society, 1871-1910, and wrote on systematic, palaeontological and agricultural botany. Bennett was Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital. He translated and edited 'Lehrbuch der Botanik', 1875, and collaborated on 'Handbook of Cryptogamic Botany', 1889.
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