Otto Vernon Darbishire (16 March 1870 – 17 October 1934) was a British

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who specialised in marine algae and

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(

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, Wales), he was educated at several places and eventually graduated from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Darbishire became a

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in botany at several institutions. First in

Kiel University Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

in 1897, where he earned a PhD; during this time he was an assistant to

Johannes Reinke Johannes Reinke (February 3, 1849 – February 25, 1931) was a German botanist and philosopher who was a native of Ziethen, Lauenburg. He is remembered for his research of benthic marine algae. Academic background Reinke studied botany with h ...

, professor of botany. He was later lecturer at

Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

from 1898 to 1909; Armstrong College;

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from 1909 to 1911; and then

Bristol University , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

. At Bristol he was the first Melville Wills Professor of Botany, from the years 1919 to 1934. Darbishire was elected

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in 1920, and was president of the

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in 1923. He has been credited for having introduced the terms and in an 1898

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on the

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''.

Selected publications

*Darbishire, O.V. (1898). Monographia Roccelleorum. Bibliotheca Bot. 45: 1–103. *Darbishire, O.V. (1912). The lichens of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition. Wissensch. Ergebn. Schwed. Südpolar-Exped. 1901-1903 4 (2): 1–73. *Darbishire, O.V. (1914). Some remarks on the ecology of lichens. Journal of Ecology 2: 71–82. *Darbishire, O.V. (1914). The development of the apothecium in the lichen ''Peltigera''. Rep. British Ass. Adv. Sci., Birmingham 1913. 713–714. *Darbishire, O.V. (1923). Cryptogams from the Antarctic. Journal of Botany 61: 105–107. *Darbishire, O.V. (1923). Lichens in British Antarctic Expedition, 1910. Natur. Hist. Report, Botany 3: 29–76. *Darbishire, O.V. (1924). Some aspects of lichenology. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 10 (1–2): 10–28. *Darbishire, O.V. (1926). The structure of ''Peltigera'' with especial reference to ''P. praetextata''. Annals of Botany 40: 727–758. *Darbishire, O.V. (1927). Über das Wachstum der Cephalodiem von ''Peltigera aphthosa'' L. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 45: 221–228. *Darbishire, O.V. (1927). The soredia of ''Peltigera erumpens'' Wain, and ''P. scutata'' Kbr. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 12 (1): 52–70.

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1870 births 1934 deaths British botanists British lichenologists British phycologists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London People from Conwy University of Kiel alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford {{mycologist-stub

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