Record

CodePX983
Dates1830-1922
Person NameCarruthers; William (1830-1922); Palaeobotanist, Keeper of Botany
SurnameCarruthers
ForenamesWilliam
EpithetPalaeobotanist, Keeper of Botany
ActivityMuseum Staff: appointed Assistant in Department of Botany 25 Aug 1859; Senior Assistant 1865; Keeper of Botany 15 Feb 1871; Retired 29 May 1895.
Palaeobotanist
1845-54 at Edinburgh University (bar two periods of teaching). 1854 to New College, Edinburgh, for church career but was persuaded into science - became Lecturer on Botany at New Veterinary College, Edinburgh.
Fellow of the Linnean Society 1861 - President 1886-90, VP and on Council at various times. Fellow of the Royal Society. President of the Geologists' Association 1875. President of the Royal Microscopical Society 1901.
1871-1909 Consulting Botanist to the Royal Agricultural Society.
RelationshipsMarried Jeannie Couch Moffat 1865. Sons Samuel William and John Bennett (later Government Botanist in Trinidad, died there 1910) Daughter Jeannie Moffat Carruthers, 1872 - 1912
Catalogue
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DF/BOT/404/1/5Carruthers, William: Correspondence, L - M
DF/BOT/404/1/18Carruthers, William: 'The fossil flora of Great Britain' by John Lindley and William Hutton
DF/BOT/404/1/26Carruthers, William: General Library, official papers and correspondence
DF/BOT/404/1/24Carruthers, William: William Henry Flower - Memorandum on the government of the British Museum
DF/PAL/100/10/8Carruthers, W
DF/PH/2/2/3/5Staff Photograph: W Carruthers, Keeper of Botany Department
DF/BOT/404/1/22Carruthers, William: Professor E Ray Lankester - Printed testimonial signed to T H Huxley and others
DF/BOT/404/1/21Carruthers, William: Western Scotland Marine Flora Committee minute book
DF/BOT/400/18/6Correspondence Ca
DF/PUB/516/6/1A guide to the exhibition galleries of the Departments of Mineralogy and Botany
DF/ZOO/200/34/86-89Forbes, Henry [Ogg]
DF/BOT/404/1/20Carruthers, William: Dr Henry Trimen
DF/ZOO/200/30/72Carruthers, William
DF/BOT/404/1/8Carruthers, William: Correspondence, V - Z
DF/BOT/404/1/7Carruthers, William: Correspondence, S - U
DF/BOT/404/1Carruthers, William: Papers and Correspondence
DF/BOT/404/1/13Carruthers, William: Provision of a library for the Botany Department, letters and memoranda
DF/ZOO/200/10/486Turner, William Y
DF/BOT/404/1/6Carruthers, William: Correspondence, N - R
DF/BOT/404/1/12Carruthers, William: 'Moses and geology' by Samuel Kinns : correspondence, notes and newscuttings
DF/ZOO/200/39/86Carruthers, [William]
DF/BOT/404/1/25Carruthers, William: Notes on the ancient oaks of Lochwood, Ayr, [Scotland]
DF/BOT/404/1/4Carruthers, William: Correspondence, H - K
DF/BOT/404/1/2Carruthers, William: Correspondence, Bo - C
DF/BOT/404/1/3Carruthers, William: Correspondence, D - G
DF/BOT/404/1/10Carruthers, William: Correspondence and newscuttings on scientific topics connected with the British Museum
DF/BOT/404/1/23Carruthers, William: Diary of a tour through Germany, Holland, Sweden and Denmark
DF/BOT/404/9/12/1Correspondence: B-Cl
DF/PH/2/2/2/1Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/ZOO/200/24/64-65Carruthers, William
DF/BOT/404/1/1Carruthers, William: Correspondence, A - Bl
DF/PAL/100/12/12Carruthers, W
DF/ZOO/200/17/97-100Carruthers, William
DF/ZOO/200/20/71-74Carruthers, William
DF/ZOO/200/22/49-52Carruthers, William
DF/ZOO/200/43/72Carruthers, [William]
DF/ZOO/200/45/70Carruthers, [William]
DF/BOT/404/2/1Litigation over the Welwitsch Collection: The King of Portugal v W Carruthers and F Justen
DF/BOT/400/4/35Carruthers, William (Norwood)
DF/BOT/400/2/3Hampe, G E L (Harz, Germany)
DF/BOT/400/11/43Pembroke, Lady (Wiltshire)
DF/BOT/400/17/4Correspondence Ca - Ch
DF/BOT/404/2/23Litigation over the Welwitsch Collection: notes by W.Carruthers on the collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and other matters
DF/PAL/100/61/102Article by William Carruthers
DF/PH/2/2/1/19Staff Photograph: William Carruthers, Keeper of Botany Department
DF/PH/2/1/1/25Staff Photograph: William Carruthers
DF/BOT/404/1/11Carruthers, William: Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction: correspondence and newscuttings, with material on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
DF/BOT/440/3/4Rendle, Alfred: Testimonial in favour of Rendle by Carruthers, W
DF/BOT/404/1/16Carruthers, William: Reports of scientific lectures, Newscuttings
DF/BOT/404/1/15Carruthers, William: Rough notes on fossil plants, radiolaria, and other scientific subjects, with plates
DF/ZOO/200/19/57-59Carruthers, William
DF/ZOO/200/27/60Carruthers, William
DF/BOT/404Keeper of Botany's Correspondence and Papers
DF/BOT/404/2/24Litigation over the Welwitsch Collection: correspondence of W Carruthers with B A Gomes, J D Hooker, G A Schweinfurth and others
DF/BOT/404/1/19Carruthers, William: Linnean Society of London
DF/BOT/404/1/9Carruthers, William: Correspondence on scientific topics and points of controversy, with Sir W T Thiselton Dyer and others
DF/PAL/100/40/263Carruthers, W
DF/PAL/100/42/440Carruthers, W
DF/PAL/100/51/123Carruthers, W
DF/ZOO/200/19/126-130Günther, A C L G
DF/BOT/404/1/14Carruthers, William: Flower, William Henry: 'A few reasons why the British Museum should be preserved in its ancient integrity'. Pp 7, printed.
DF/ZOO/200/33/89-91Forbes, Henry [Ogg]
DF/ZOO/200/41/67-69Clarence, Duke of [Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale]
DF/BOT/404/1/17Carruthers, William: British Association, Committee for Investigating the Fossil Flora of Ireland : letters of W H Baily and others
DF/BDG/3/1/1/19Sketch plan and section through 2nd floor of East Gallery embodying Carruthers' requirements.
DF/PH/2/2/3Staff Photographs: Botany Department Staff from album of photographs taken by Robert Hugh Bunting
DF/ZOO/200/39/284[Maries], C
DF/BDG/3/1/6Volume of Alfred Waterhouse architectural plans and related papers
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