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John Lindley (
February 8,
1799 -
November 1,
1865) was an
English botanist.
Lindley was born at
Catton, near
Norwich, where his father, George Lindley, author of
A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden, owned a nursery garden. He was educated at what was then
Norwich Grammar School. His first publication, in
1819, a translation of the
Analyse du fruit of
L. C. M. Richard, was followed in 1820 by an 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, and by arduous studying the pattern of characters, he became convinced of the superiority of the "natural" system of
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, for example a system that reflected the great plan of nature. This had to be 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 to the Natural System of Botany (
1830).
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 until 1860; he lectured also on botany from
1831 at the
Royal Institution, and from 1836 at the
Chelsea Physic Garden. He began the flower show of the Society in the later 1830s. During his
professoriate he wrote many scientific and popular works, besides contributing largely to the
Botanical Register, of which he was editor for many years, and to
The Gardeners' Chronicle, in which he'd charge of the horticultural department from
1841. He was a fellow of the
Royal,
Linnean and
Geological Societies. He died at his house in Bedford Park near
Turnham Green.
Besides those already mentioned, his works include :
He is one of the fathers of orchid classification and plant systematics in general.
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