David Douglas, Explorer and Botanist

Sir Joseph Banks: eighteenth-century explorer, botanist, and entrepreneur

books by herself and her collaborators, G. Scott Williamson and Lucy Crocker, The case for action (1931), Biologists in search of material (1938), and The Peckham experiment (1943). Set up in the 1930s, the Peckham centre housed under one roof an enomous range of social activities for the community, from carpentry and swimming to ante-natal guidance, in the service of two deeper scientific goal...

Archibald Menzies, Surgeon Botanist

Archibald Menzies, the 2nd son of a Highland gardener, was born in 1754. His father was the head gardener at Castle Menzies near Loch Tay, and the clan leader's distant relative. From him Archibald learnt respect for authority and the joy of growing things. In an atmosphere of secure prosperity young Archibald had a good practical and general education, working in the Castle gardens and grounds...

Eli Ives—Practitioner, Teacher and Botanist *

Joseph Hooker: the making of a botanist.

Joseph Hooker became one of the most influential botanists of his day. He is best remembered as a friend of Charles Darwin and an early advocate of natural selection. However, after returning to Britain from his first major voyage, Hooker spent years struggling to find a paid position that would allow him to pursue his studies of plant classification and distribution. As he worked to establish ...

David and Ferguson , Eamonn and Powis , David and Bore

Background: At Nottingham University more than 95% of entrants to the traditional 5-year medical course are school leavers. Since 2003 we have admitted graduate entrants (GEM) to a shortened (4-year) course to 'widen access to students from more disadvantaged backgrounds'. We have recently shown that the GEM course widens academic and socio-demographic diversity of the medical student populatio...