John Bretland Farmer 5497575 162231580 2007-10-04T13:03:48Z Open2universe 367488 + DEFAULTSORT {{otherpeople2|John Farmer}} Sir '''John Bretland Farmer''' ([[5 April]] [[1865]] - [[26 January]] [[1944]]) was a [[UK|British]] [[botany|botanist]], born at [[Atherstone]] and educated at [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]. He was fellow of Magdalen in [[1889]]-[[1897|97]], demonstrator of botany in [[1887]]-[[1992|92]], and assistant professor of biology in 1892-[[1895|95]] at Oxford, and then became [[professor]] of botany in the ([[London]]) [[Imperial College London|Imperial College of Science and Technology]]. He was an editor of the ''Annals of Botany'' and wrote particularly on [[cell biology|cytology]]; he was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in [[1900]]. {{DEFAULTSORT:Farmer, John Bretland}} {{botanist-stub}} [[category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:English botanists]] [[Category:British journalists]] [[Category:1865 births]] [[Category:1944 deaths]]