William Allman
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William Allman, M.D. (1776–1846) was Professor of Botany at Dublin.[1]
He was born at
In consequence of this intimacy, Dr. Allman arranged lectures in 1812 on the natural system, he being the first professor in the British isles to do so. He held the chair of botany until 1844 when he was succeeded by Dr.
In addition to the two mathematical papers mentioned in the 'Catalogue of Scientific Papers', he wrote 'On the Mathematical Relations of the Forms of the Cells of Plants', in the 'British Association Report' for 1835, erroneously attributed in the above-mentioned catalogue to his successor. He was also the author of an 'arrangement of plants' according to their natural affinities, which was read before the
His best-known work is a thin quarto entitled 'Analysis per differentias constantes viginti, inchoata, generum plantarum quæ in Britanniis, Gallia, Helvetia . . . sponte sua crescunt', London, 1828. In 1844 he privately brought out an abstract of a memoir read in 1811 before the Royal Society, but not printed, on the mathematical connection between the external organs of plants and their internal structure.
Allman's son, George (1824–1904),was a mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics.
References
- Thomas Ulick Sadleirp12: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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