Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica
- Holmes, Edward Morell, 1843-1930.
- Date:
- 1876-1930
- Reference:
- MSS.2867-2932, 7961 & WMS/Amer.145-148
- Archives and manuscripts
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The material is divided between the main Western Manuscripts series (MSS.2867-2932 and 7961) and the American Manuscripts series (WMS/Amer.145-148).
The four manuscripts in the American series deal with Latin American flora while the other large block of material, MSS.2867-2932, deals with flora from around the globe. MS.7961 comprises a single file of general correspondence.
Within each of the large blocks of manuscripts, material is arranged in chronological order of composition (with the exception of MS.2932, which is written in collaboration with Edward Arthur Lionel Batters (1860-1907) and placed at the end of the block of material as a reflection of this difference in authorship).
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Biographical note
Edward Morell Holmes described himself as a "Consulting Botanist and Pharmacognosist" and was the author of many papers on botany and materia medica. He was lecturer in botany at the Westminster Hospital School from 1873 to 1876, lecturer in materia medica to the Pharmaceutical Society from 1887 to 1890, and Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society from 1872 to 1922. In 1900 he was President to the British Pharmaceutical Conference.
For an obituary see the Pharmaceutical Journal, 1930, 4th series, 71, pp.284-286.
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- Dried flowers
- Disease
- Carmine
- Digitalis
- Drug Industry
- Education, Medical
- Entomology
- Ephedrine
- Ethics
- Eucalyptus
- Fever
- Fungi
- Antifungal Agents
- Herbal Medicine
- Glycyrrhiza
- Greek Language
- Hay fever
- Lawsone
- Hepatophyta
- Herbaria
- Histology
- Solanaceae
- Materia Medica
- Insects
- Jalap
- Kola nuts
- Lathyrus Lectin
- Lavandula
- Libraries
- Materia Medica
- Mentha
- Wild flowers
- Mosses
- Museums
- Mustard
- Myrrh Oil
- Parasitic Diseases
- Petroselinum
- Plants, Medicinal
- Pelargonium
- Botany
- Capsicum
- Societies, Medical
- Pharmacopoeias
- Pharmacy
- Physiology
- Poisons
- Fruit
- Hallucinogens
- World War I
- Opium
- Opiate Alkaloids
- Smilax
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- 89200 and others