LINDLEY, JOHN (1799-1865)

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LINDLEY, JOHN (1799-1865) , English botanist, was born on the 5th of February 1799 at Catton, near

Norwich

NORWICH
NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

, where his father, George Lindley, author of A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen

Garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

, owned a nursery

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

. He was educated at

Norwich

NORWICH
NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

grammar school. His first publication, in 1819, a

translation

TRANSLATION

of the Analyse du fruit of L. C. M. Richard, was followed in 182o by an

original

ORIGINAL

Monographia Rosarum, with descriptions of new species, and drawings executed by himself, and in 1821 by Monographia Digitalium, and by " Observations on Pomaceae," contributed to the Linnean Society. Shortly afterwards he went to London, where he was engaged by J. C. Loudon to write the descriptive portion of the Encyclopaedia of Plants. In his labours on this undertaking, which was completed in 1829, he became convinced of the superiority of the " natural " system of A. L. de

Jussieu

JUSSIEU, DE

, as distinguished from the " artificial " system of Linnaeus followed in the Encyclopaedia; the conviction found expression in A Synopsis of British Flora, arranged according to the Natural Order _(1829) and in An Introduction lc the Natural System of Botany (183o). In 1829 Lindley, who since 1822 had been assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society, was appointed to the chair of botany in University College, London, which he retained till 186o; he lectured also on botany from 1831 at the Royal Institution, and from 1836 at the Botanic Gardens, Chelsea., During his professoriate he wrote many scientific and popular works, besides contributing largely to the Botanical

, of which he was editor for many years, and to the Gardener's Chronicle, in which he had charge of the horticultural department from 1841. He was a fellow of the Royal, Linnean and

Geological

GEOLOGICAL

Societies. He died at Turnham Green on the 1st of November 1865.
Besides those already mentioned, his works include An Outline of the First Principles of Horticulture (1832), An Outline of the Structure and

Physiology

PHYSIOLOGY (from Gr. 4 i s, nature, and koyos, discourse)

of Plants (1832), A Natural System of Botany (1836), The Fossil Flora of

Great

GREAT

Britain (with William

Hutton

, 1831-1837), Flora Medica (1838), Theory of Horticulture (184o), The Vegetable Kingdom (1846), Folic; Orchidacea (1852), Descriptive Botany (1858).

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