Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : New Director Prof. E. J. Salisbury, C.B.E., F.R.S.

Abstract

THE appointment of Prof. E. J. Salisbury as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew will give general satisfaction. Like one of the most successful of its directors, Sir William Thiselton Dyer, Prof. Salisbury began his career as a teacher of botany, having held with distinction the Quain professorship of botany in ”University College, London, for many years. His earlier interests in botany were in the field of plant ecology, to which he made a number of first-rate contributions. His study of the vegetation of Blakeney Point, Norfolk, led him to take a special interest in the distribution of plants in the neighbouring parts of the country and resulted in an excellent account of the East Anglian flora published in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist Society. His work on the distribution of plants directed his attention to the gradual disappearance from some of our counties of many interesting plants, and his account of the “Waning Flora of Britain” expresses his concern in the matter, and has caused him to take an active part in the preservation of the flora of Britain.