Edward James Salisbury

Edward James Salisbury Sir Edward James Salisbury Linnean Society of London FLS Royal Society FRS Order of the British Empire CBE (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist, field naturalist, plant photographer, and ecologist. He was appointed Quain Professor of botany in 1929, awarded a Veitch Memorial Medal in 1936, and knighted in 1946. Quotes It is tempting to assume that the process of natural selection has brought about a nicety of adjustment between the seed output and mortality, and this presumption is implicit in most of the writings on this topic. If true, it involves as a necessary corollary that the potential Fecundity#Population ecology reproductive capacity of a species is a measure of its susceptibility to natural mortality. The Reproductive Capacity of Plants: Studies in Quantitative Biology George Bell (publisher) George Bell 1942 https://books.google.com/books?id=YozwAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=nicety 2 (244 pages) ... the Thinopyrum junceum Sea Wheat Grass (Agropyron junceum) is extremely tolerant of Seawater sea water. It can grow quite well with as much as 1.5% of salt in the sand and will tolerate up to 6%. Moreover, it will endure quite prolonged inundation by a high tide. Downs & Dunes: Their Plant Life and Its Environment George Bell & Sons 1952 9780598807229 https://books.google.com/books?id=PZrwAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=salt+tolerance 211 (328 pages) All the British Taraxacum dandelions produce viable fruits without the necessity for fertilization (Apomixis apomictic) so that, although they have all the advantages of dispersal associated with normal seed production (in this instance Seed dispersal#Wind wind-dispersal of the parachute-bearing fruits), yet their reproduction is equivalent to vegetative propagation. Weeds & Aliens volume 43 of The New naturalist; a survey of British natural history 2nd Collins 1961 https://books.google.com/books?id=EHE_AAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=british+dandelions 192 (384 pages) The Living Garden (1935) It was not till the middle of the nineteenth century that the rich harvest of American shrubs really began to be garnered, though the Liriodendron tulipifera Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) had already introduced from there in 1663. The Living Garden; Or, The How and Why of Garden Life 1936 London George Bell & Sons https://books.google.com/books?id=_B7yPe2M60QC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=1663 130 (1st published in 1935) From the woods of north-west America came that familiar evergreen shrub Berberis pinnata Mahonia pinnata, which in some gardens to-day is almost a weed; yet such was the enthusiasm with which it was first received that roots commanded a price of ten Guinea (coin) guineas each. p. 132 Quotes about Edward James Saiisbury During his long period on the academic staff of University College London University College Salisbury’s scientific reputation rose steadily with the publication of a succession of research papers in botanical and other journals and of several important books, including The reproductive capacity of plants (1942), and also through his frequent and much acclaimed lectures to a wide range of botanical and horticultural audiences. He was President of the British Ecological Society in 1928, Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London Linnean Society in 1928-9, and in 1933 he was elected a Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1937 he became President of Section K of the British Association and in 1939 was made Order of the British Empire C.B.E. Then in 1943 he was appointed to the Directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, made vacant by the death of Arthur William Hill Sir Arthur Hill. Arthur Roy Clapham, 10.1098/rsbm.1980.0014 Edward James Salisbury. 16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 26 502–526 1980 (quote from p. 507) An article in New Scientist in June 1959 described Sir Edward James Salisbury as a “prophet and propagandist of botany”. Inspired by the plants that grew wild in his native Hertfordshire, he became a pioneering ecologist, lecturer, author – The Living Garden (1935) was a bestseller – and, from 1943-56, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He was also a keen photographer and a large collection of his glass plate negatives – natural landscapes and individual plant studies – was recently discovered in the Natural History Museum, London Natural History Museum archives. Sean O'Hagan, Review: Field Studies by Chrystel Lebas review – a photographic journey into the UK’s wild places 25 July 2017 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/24/field-studies-chrystel-lebas-photographic-journey-britain-wild-places-plants (See Chrystel Lebas.) External links Rawlings, Emily M. 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