Record

Code	PX721
Dates	1885-1974
Person Name	Ramsbottom; John (1885-1974); Botanist
Surname	Ramsbottom
Forenames	John
Epithet	Botanist
Activity	Museum Staff: Department of Botany appointed 2nd class assistant in Cryptogamic Section 18 July 1910; Assistant Keeper 1925; Deputy Keeper 1928; Keeper 1930; Retired 1950. Mycologist In 1910's he taught two evenings a week at the Birkbeck College Botanical Department and continued to teach there after World War I. During WWI he went to Salonica, Greece as a civilian protozoologist and he later held the rank of Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. On his retirement from BM(NH) he took the opportunity to travel and visited Sweden, Florence, Israel and South Africa among others. He was also associated with the Haslemere Educational Museum He was a fellow of the Linnean Society for 60 years and served on its council from 1921 - 1943. He was botanical secretary 1923 - 1937 and president 1937 - 1940. In 1965 he was awarded the Linnean Gold Medal. He was president of the Botany Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1936 and of the conference of delegates of corresponding societies in 1947. He was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912, was awarded the Veitch memorial gold medal 1944 and the Victoria medal of honour in 1950. He was also editor of the New Naturalist series. He joined the British Mycological Society in 1910 and was elected president in 1924 which entitiled him to a permanent seat on the council. He was general secretary from 1921 - 1945 and editor of 'transactions' from 1919 - 1942. He also served on their plant pathology committee from 1910 - 1945. During the socieiy's jubilee year in 1946 he was chosen to be president for a second time.

Catalogue

RefNo	Title	Source
DF/PH/7/8/1/6	Ramsbottom, John
DF/PH/7/8/1/4	Ramsbottom, John and Evans, J B - talking to children
DF/BOT/400/13/116	Ramsbottom, John (Liverpool)
DF/PH/2/2/2/4	Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/PH/2/2/1/40	Staff Photograph: John Ramsbottom, Botany Department, holding a puffball
DF/PH/2/2/2/5	Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/PH/2/2/2/3	Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/PH/2/2/1/41	Staff Photograph: John Ramsbottom, Botany Department
DF/BOT/400/13/81	Ramsbottom, John (Richmond)
DF/PH/2/2/2/7	Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/BOT/416/1/52	Papers of James Edgar Dandy: Correspondence (G) concerning outstanding loans
DF/BOT/416/1/62	Papers of James Edgar Dandy: Correspondence (U-V) concerning outstanding loans
DF/BOT/425/1/3	'The Uses of Fungi' Correspondence
DF/BOT/405	Papers of the Editors of the Journal of Botany
DF/BOT/425	Mycology Section: Correspondence and Papers
DF/BOT/413	Botany Accessions, Acquisition and Exchange Records
DF/PH/2/1/4/1	Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph)
DF/PH/2/2/2/6	Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/PH/7/2/2	Ramsbottom, John: retirement - vew of cake, decorated with fungi
DF/ADM/1000/99	Reports and letters 1914
DF/PH/1/7/3/33	Botany Department: Carpenters of Holland Hannen and Cubitts Ltd standing in new General Herbarium, with J Ramsbottom, foreman and architect

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