Plant Collectors Gallery

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Choose from 10 images in our Plant Collectors collection.

Henry Ridley

Ernest Henry Wilson

Joseph Rock (1884-1962)

Henry Ridley and houseboat, Kuala Tembeling, Malaysia, 1911

John Davenport Snowden and wife, Uganda 1916

William Turrill botanising

Kewites and wives Kampala, Uganda, 1923

Arthur Hill, Director of Kew 1922-41

Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron

John Hutchinson

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John Hutchinson

John Hutchinson, Keeper of Museums at Kew from 1936 to 1948. He curated Economic Botany collections and advised british ministries and colonial governments. Hutchinson is pictured here referring to dried specimens in the Herbarium while working on his revision of George bentham and Joseph Hooker's great work, Genera Plantarum, first published in 1862. Hutchinson's "Genera of Flowering Plants" was published in three volumes in 1964, 1967 and posthumously in 1972. he included 11, 500 genera and approached the task almost single-handedly