Sydney Howard Vines FRS (31 December 1849 – 4 April 1934) was a British botanist and academic. He was

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from 1888 to 1919, and served as President of the

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from 1900 to 1904.

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'' from 1887 to 1899.

Education and career

Vines studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, obtaining his Bachelor of Science in 1873, Bachelor of Arts in 1876, Master of Arts in 1879, and his doctorate in 1883. He became a member of the

in 1885.

Works

Vines' works include: * * *''Science Lectures at South Kensington'' (1878), * * *''Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical'' (1892), * *''An Elementary Text-book of Botany: From the German of Dr. K. Prantl '' (1898), ''The Dillenian Herbaria'', (1907).

Additional information

His parents birthnames were William Reynolds and Jessie Robertson. He married an Agnes Bertha Perry in 1884. The Vines, Oxford was built for him. He was the father of the author and academic Sherard Vines.

References

1849 births 1934 deaths Presidents of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Sherardian Professors of Botany {{UK-botanist-stub