1. Sir William Thiselton-Dyer (1843--1928). British Botanist and third Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1885--1905) He succeeded Joseph Hooker in that role after serving as his Assistant Director for ten years. He married Hooker's eldest daughter Harriet in1877.
2. Daniel Oliver (1830-1916). Botanist. He made botanical studies in northern Britain and in Ireland, becoming a fellow of the Edinburgh Botanical Society in 1851 and of the Linnaean Society in 1853. In 1858 at the invitation of Sir William Hooker he began work as an assistant in the Kew Herbarium. In 1859, he initiated lectures in Botany for Kew's trainee gardeners which led to his appointment as Professor of Botany at University College London in 1861, a post he held until 1888. From 1864 to 1890 he was also Keeper of the Herbarium and Library at Kew. He was elected member of the Royal Society in 1863 and published a number of works including Lessons in Elementary Botany,1864 and Flora of Tropical Africa 1868--1877. From 1890 until 1895 he held the editorship of Icones Plantarum. (1830--1916).
3.Icones Plantarum Or, Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks of New or Rare Plants. Icones Plantarum was initiated by Sir William Jackson Hooker. The illustrations are drawn from specimens in Hooker's herbarium, and subsequently the herbarium of Kew Gardens. W. Hooker was the author of the first ten volumes, produced 1837--1854, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, was responsible for Volumes X-XIX (most of Series III). Daniel Oliver was the editor of Volumes XX-XXIV. His successor was William Turner Thiselton-Dyer. The series now comprises forty volumes.
4.The Botanical Magazine is the longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants. Originally Curtis's Botanical Magazine, it has been published continuously since 1787, although there have been several series within the overall sequence. From 1984 to 1994 the magazine appeared under the title of The Kew Magazine. In 1995 the publication returned to its roots and the historical and popular name Curtis's Botanical Magazine again took precedence.
5.William Botting Hemsley (1843--1924) Botanist. Trained in horticulture and botany at Kew where he became Herbarium clerk in 1865 and assisted Bentham with Flora Australiensis. After a period of ill health, he worked independently on Central American, Mexican, African and Chinese botany. He returned to Kew in 1889 as part-time, then principal assistant for India; from1888 to 1908 he was Keeper of the Herbarium. He was elected to the Linnean Society in1878 and to the Royal Society in 1889, when he was also made an honorary member of the Horticultural Society of Mexico. The Royal Horticultural Society awarded him a Victoria Medal in 1909.
6. Lovell Reeve & Co Publishing Company was set up by Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814--1865) and became one the leading scientific publishing houses of the time, associated with Lyell, Darwin and also with the Hookers, especially through the Botanical Magazine. Lovell Reeve was known for his work on conchology and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1846 and of the Geological Society in 1853. On his death the management of the firm passed to his partner, Francis Lesiter Soper.
7.Williams & Norgate publishers founded by Edmund Sydney Williams and Frederick Norgate had offices in London and Edinburgh dealt especially in foreign languages and in scientific literature such as The Natural History Review and T.H.Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, 1863.
8. Gen Plant: Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. This 3 volume work published in Latin between 1862--1883 by J.D. Hooker & George Bentham is a taxonomic study of 7, 569 genera (approximately 97,000 species) of seed-bearing plants; it is the foundation for many modern systems of classification.
9. Clarendon. The Clarendon Press was the name taken by Oxford University Press when printing moved from the Sheldonian Theatre to the Clarendon Building in Broad Street, Oxford in 1713. The name continued to be used when OUP moved to its present site in Oxford in 1830.
10. Aunt Effie: Ophelia Dixon (1828--1896) married Dawson William Turner( 1815--1885) in 1846. She died on 1st January, 1896.
11. Otto Stapf (1857--1933). Austrian botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. Otto studied and then taught Botany at the University of Vienna. He published the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father. In 1895 he made a nine -month-long botanical expedition to Persia and moved to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. From 1891 he was Assistant in the Herbarium of which he became Keeper from 1909 to 1922. He became a British citizen in 1905, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1908 and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1927.
12. George Bentham (1800--1884). Nephew and heir to Jeremy Bentham for whom he also acted a secretary. After his uncle's death he devoted himself to botany, especially plant classification. At the invitation of Sir William Hooker he began work at Kew where he remained for 27 years He collaborated with Joseph Hooker on the Genera Plantarum (3 vols 1862-1883) an influential work on plant taxonomy which is the foundation of many modern systems of classification. He donated his herbarium of more than 100,000 specimens to Kew. His Handbook of British Flora remained a standard work into the 20th century.
13. Charles Baron Clarke (1832--1906). British botanist. Clarke was Inspector of Schools in Eastern Bengal and later of India, and superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden from 1869 to 1871. He retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1887. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1894 to 1896, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1882. He worked at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew until his death in 1906. Publications include Cyperaceae of the Philippines: a list of the species in the Kew Herbarium.

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