Tropical lower montane rain forest in Ecuador, looking toward a tree-fall gap Pollen grain of lime (Tilia cordata) TC Whitmore Nigel Luckhurst Margaret Collinson

100 Years of Plant Sciences in 1904-2004

Espaliered Ginkgo on the south side of the building in autumn

Published by the Department of Plant Sciences, . March 2004 H David Thurston David Last Designed and printed by Cambridge Printing, the printing business of Cambridge University Press. www.cambridge.org/promotional Rust disease (Hemileia vastarix) on coffee Plastocyanin of tobacco (above) and pea Current The New Flora Statistics made simple Members of Staff at 1 March 2004 Root mean square And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon Wicken’s fenlands green? And was the Harry Win of God Mid Wicken’s waving sedges seen? and Head of Department Departmental Administrator Library Assistant John Gray Catherine King Richard Savage And did the ecologist supreme Cut profiles in our darkened peat? Professor of Superintendent of the Botanic Garden Secretaries And was the succession ‘stablished there Roger Leigh Tim Upson Virginia Mullins (Secretary to Upon this beneath our feet? Head of Department) Other Professors Teaching Coordinator Linda Linsley, Helen Scott Bring me my book by Clapham bold, Chris Gilligan Veronica Bennett Bring me my Warburg of desire. Howard Griffiths Accounts Bring me my Tutin: O flowers unfold! Definition John Parker Assistant Curator of the Herbarium Sue Marrah (Chief Clerk) John Clinton Gray, Roger Allen Leigh Christopher Aidan Howard Griffiths John Stewart Parker Bring me my flora stained with mire! Supervisor: one who overlooks Gina Murrell Margaret Goddard Head of Department Professor of Botany Gilligan Professor of Plant Professor of Plant Reader Professor of Plant Professor of Ecology Cytogenetics I will not cease from mental fight, Observation Alison Smith Principal Technician Store Molecular Biology Mathematical Biology Director of the Botanic Not shall the flora leave my hand, Colin Denston Richard Jeffrey (Senior Purchasing Garden & Curator of Fungi and algae are often lichened to one another the Herbarium Till we have solved th’ecology, Senior Lecturers Officer) Of Wicken’s green and pleasant land. John Carr Technicians and Research Assistants Edward Elmer Question and answer Julia Davies Irina Abakumova, Sue Aspinall Why are mushrooms always invited to parties? David Hanke Jean-Maurice Assie, Anne Bates Workshop Past Professors and Curators or Directors of the Botanic Garden Because they are such fun guys. Keith Johnstone John Banfield, Paolo Bombelli Ian Boggie (Facilities Manager) Up the Crick with Watson Professors of Botany Curators and Directors of the Botanic Garden Edmund Tanner Barbara Bottrill, Adeeba Dark Graham Chambers, Brenda Deverson I’m Watson, I’m Crick Apparatus to measure the effect of CO2 on Matthew Dorling, John Green Simone Rossiter, Garry Walker 1724-32 Richard Bradley Curators Let us show you our trick- bubble formation by Homo sapiens Lecturers Sue Green, Geraldine Heath 1733-62 John Martyn 1763-70Charles Miller We have found where the seed of life sprang from 1762-1825 Thomas Martyn 1794-1813 James Donn David Coomes Lara Jamieson, Glyn Jones Cleaners and Glasswashers We believe we’re a stew Beverley Glover Hamish Maule, Isabelle Moltini Ronald MacBain, Gina Barnes 1825-61 1813-45 Arthur Biggs 1861-95 Charles Cardale Babington 1845-50Andrew Murray Of molecular goo Jim Haseloff Ellie Mott, Adrienne Pate Jim Holland, Asya Kanapina With a period of thirty-four Angstrom Julian Hibberd Susan Stanley, Matthew Stancombe 1895-1906 Harry Marshall Ward 1851-64 James Stratton 1906-36 Sir 1864-79 William Mudd Alex Webb Richard Walter, Anne Watson 1936-48 Frederick Tom Brooks 1879-1919 Richard Irwin Lynch All love-making viral Caroline York 1948-60George Edward Briggs Directors Takes place in a spiral 1960-68 Sir 1921-50 Humphrey Gilbert-Carter Ah me ! How the little dears palpitate 1968-77 Percy Wragg Brian 1951-73 John Scott Lennox Gilmour They are so intertwined 1977-91 Richard Gilbert West 1973-84 Stuart It’s not easy to find, Independent Researchers 1991-96 Thomas ap Rees 1984-95 Christopher Donald Pigott Julia Coates, Romola Davenport, Geoffrey Holmes, Kate Maxwell, Stuart Roy, Fiona Tuke, Kate Wilson When it’s o’er, how the sweet creatures separate.

We may look pretty odd, Post-doctoral Research Assistants Holders of Personal Professorships Mitosis Naomi Brown, David Claessen, Sylviane Comparot, Vadim Demidchik, Pauline Essah, Matthew Gilliham, Alexander Johnson, But we think that we’re God 1946-48 George Edward Briggs (Plant Physiology) Nerissa Hannink, Lai-Hua Liu, Adam Kleczkowski, Gary Lanigan, Jon Ludlam, Neil McPherson, Shana Mertens, Michael If you doubt that our formula’s relevant, 1966-73 Edred John Henry Corner (Tropical Botany) Think of Adam and Eve Moulin, Christine Newell, Wilfrid Otten, Kate Parsley, Qi Cheng, Wendy Robe, Elinor Thompson, Elisabeth Truernit, Heather 1971-73 Stephen (Mycology) Who learned to conceive Whitney, Yii Leng Chua 1975-77 Richard Gilbert West (Palaeoecology) 1987-99 Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie (Plant Biophysics) With the aid of the helical serpent. 2000-01 Peter John Grubb (Investigative Plant Ecology)