- Alfred Barton Rendle
Alfred Barton Rendle FRS (
January 19 1865 -January 11 1938 ) was an Englishbotanist .Rendle was born in
Lewisham and studied atSt John's College, Cambridge . He was keeper of Botany at theNatural History Museum from 1906 to 1930, in succession toGeorge Robert Milne Murray .In 1905, Rendle attended the
International Botanical Congress inVienna , where he was appointed on to the editorial committee for the "International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature" (now superseded by theInternational Code of Botanical Nomenclature ,) a role which he continued in until 1935.Rendle published a number of books. Perhaps the best known of these was "The Classification of Flowering Plants", which saw a gap of over 20 years between the publication of its two volumes - the first was published in 1904, but readers had to wait until 1925 for volume two. This long gap was attributed by Rendle to his "increasing official and non-official duties". He was also botany editor for the
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition , published in 1911.Rendle was president of the Linnean Society from 1923 to 1927.
References
*Stearn, William T. - "The Natural History Museum at South Kensington" ISBN 0-434-73600-7
*Prain, D - " [http://www.jstor.org/pss/769004 Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society] ", Vol. 2, No. 7 (Jan., 1939), pp. 511-517External link
* [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35727 Rendle, Alfred Barton (1865-1938), botanist] by D. E. Allen in
Dictionary of National Biography
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