Archibald Menzies, Surgeon Botanist
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Archibald Menzies, the 2nd son of a Highland gardener, was born in 1754. His father was the head gardener at Castle Menzies near Loch Tay, and the clan leader's distant relative. From him Archibald learnt respect for authority and the joy of growing things. In an atmosphere of secure prosperity young Archibald had a good practical and general education, working in the Castle gardens and grounds from an early age. At the age of 14, he went to Edinburgh as a garden apprentice to Professor John Hope who was re-establishing the Royal Botanic Garden on a new site on Leith Walk. Hope was a physician and a botanical disciple of Linnaeus, Hope's genius for diplomacy as well as science enabled him to coax sufficient money from the Crown to re-site the Royal Botanic Garden and a Regius Chair of Botany for himself. This he was able to combine with a physician's practice and, later, with the Chair of Medicine at the University and, for a time, the Presidency of the Royal College of Physicians, Hope's qualified students went out into a widening world to serve as Surgeons at sea, with the East India Company or to the Americas. Many became devoted plant collectors, providing their revered professor and the Botanic Gardens with packets of seeds and roots from most parts of the world.
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دوره 106 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1991