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Edward James Salisbury CBE (* 16. April 1886 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire; † 10. November 1978) war ein britischer Botaniker und Ökologe. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „ E. Salisb. Salisbury studierte Botanik am University College London mit dem Abschluss 1905.
Sir Edward James Salisbury CBE FRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist and ecologist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.Sc. with a thesis on fossil seeds and was appointed a senior lecturer at East London College.
Abstract. Edward James Salisbury was born at Limbrick Hall, on Harpenden Common in Hertfordshire, on 16 April 1886, the youngest of the nine children, six boys and three girls, of James Wright Salisbury and his wife Elizabeth, née Stimpson.
Edward James Salisbury CBE war ein britischer Botaniker und Ökologe. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „E. Salisb.“
- Founder Member of The British Ecological Society
- A Love of Gardening
- Kew Gardens in Wartime
When the British Ecological Society was founded in 1913, Salisbury became a founder member. By now he was working on an even greater project involving the oak-hornbeam woodlands of Hertfordshire. The botanist recorded the light intensity in woods at different seasons of the year, and studied its effect on the flora beneath the trees. This classic s...
Salisbury ’s most successful book, however, was about gardening, a subject which had fascinated him from childhood. Following his marriage in 1917, the botanist and his wife Mabel had settled in Radlett where they built a house called ‘Willow Pool’. At their new home, he created a showpiece garden which soon became well-known because of the remarka...
When the post of director of Kew Gardens fell vacant during the Second World War, Salisbury was the natural choice for the job. He faced a difficult task. The library and herbarium had been moved out of London for safekeeping, and the staff were depleted. Bombs were a constant threat. Just months after he took up the post in September 1943, a bomb ...
Untitled-5. Nature Vol. 279. 24 May 1979. Sir Edward Salisbury. SIR EDWARD JAMES SALISBURY, CBE, FRS, who died on 10 November 1978 at the age of 92, was one of the best known British...
Salisbury specialised in the biology of weed species and was elected President of the British Ecological Society, Secretary of the Royal Society (1945) and Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal Institution (1947-1953); he was knighted in 1946. BM material consists of British and cultivated phanerogams. Original ...
