Walter Gardiner

Walter Gardiner, FLS, FRS[1] (1 September 1859 – 31 August 1941) was a British botanist. He was educated at Bedford School and at Clare College, Cambridge,[2] and was a Fellow there and Lecturer in Botany at the University.[3] He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1898: "For his researches on the protoplasmic connection of the cells of vegetable tissues and on the minute histology of plants."[4]

References
  1. Hill, A. W. (1941). "Walter Gardiner. 1859-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 985–1004. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0046.
  2. "Who's Who". Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  3. "Gardiner, Walter (GRDR878W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. Royal archive winners Prior to 1900, Royal Society, accessed 22 March 2010
  • Entry for Gardiner in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 23 April 2008)


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