The late Prof. George James Allman, as a Botanist

Abstract

THE paragraph in my obituary notice of the late George James Allman, cited by Prof. George Johnston Allman, was intended to refer to a paper read before the British Association in 1835, entitled “On the Mathematical Relations of the Forms of the Cells of Plants,” which heads the list of works ascribed in the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers to George James Allman, and not to that by William Allman mentioned in the accompanying letter by his son, of which at the time of writing I was ignorant. While collecting data for my necrology of George James Allman, my suspicions were aroused by the fact that in the original form the paper alluded to by me is attributed but to a “Dr. Allman”; assuming, however, that the Royal Society's Cataloguer must have had authority for definitely associating it with George James Allman, I did not inquire further.