Arthur Harry Church
Arthur Harry Church
botanist
and botanical illustrator. He was also a pioneer amateur photographer. From 1908 to his retirement in 1930 he was a lecturer in botany at Oxford University and was best known for his inspiring lectures.
Biography
Church was born in
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. With a first (London external) degree in Botany he won in 1891 a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining a first-class Oxford
degree in botany in 1894.
He was a
phyllotaxy, the development and arrangement of parts of the flower and one-celled sea plants.[2] Church was chiefly interested in morphology and did not take much interest in evolutionary trees although he wrote on the adaptations involved in evolution of land plants in his work on the Thalassiophyta (1919). He was a fine illustrator and photographer, sometimes illustrating his own publications.[3] He was also known for his abilities in preparing microscopic specimens, illustration, and above all inspiring lectures. His publishing was quite limited.[1]
He married Emma Palmer Pratt of
hollyhock), Rosemary Doronica (Doronicum orientale) and Grace Coryla (hazel
).
Publications
- Church, Arthur Harry (1908). Types of floral mechanism; a selection of diagrams and descriptions of common flowers arranged as an introduction to the systematic study of angiosperms. ISBN 9781313223874.
- Church, Arthur Harry (1919). Thalassiophyta and the subaerial transmigration. Oxford University Press.
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