Edward Morell Holmes
1843–1930
Botanist and pharmacologist. Registered as a pharmaceutical chemist, 1862; chemist in Plymouth until 1871. Curator of the Pharmaceutical Society Museum, London, 1872–1922. Lecturer in botany at the Westminster Hospital School, 1873–6. Lecturer in materia medica at the Pharmaceutical Society, 1887–90. Studied lichens, marine algae, and mosses.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
Mark Lawley, ‘Edward Morell Holmes’, http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Learning/Bryohistory/Bygone Bryologists/Edward Morell Holmes.rtf (accessed 31 August 2016)
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
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