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William Hemsley (botanist)

He was born in East Hoathly, Sussex and in 1860 started work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as an Improver,^[2] then Assistant for India in the Herbarium, finally Keeper of Herbarium and Library. He wrote a number of botanical works.

In 1888, a genus of flowering plants from south-east Asia, belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae was named Hemsleya in his honour.^[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1889.^[4]

• William Botting Hemsley (1873). Handbook of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants: Based on the French Work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin Entitled 'Manuel de L'amateur Des Jardins,' and Including the Original Woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Estes & Lauriat.
• Biologica Centrali-Americana Botany. Vol. I , 1879–1888
• Biologica Centrali-Americana Botany. Vol. III, 1882–1886
• Botany of the Bermudas and various other Islands of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans, 1885
• Botany of Juan Fernandez, South-eastern Molluccas, and the Admiralty Islands, 1885
• An Enumeration of All the Plants Known from China Proper, Formosa, Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the Island of Hong Kong. with Francis B. Forbes, 1887

• William Botting Hemsley finding aid collection held at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew archives.

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