Thom's Irish Who's Who/Henry, Augustine

HENRY, Augustine, M.A. (Queen's University, Ireland, and Cambridge University), F.L.S., M.R.I.A., F.R.H.S., V.M.H. Member of the Royal Arboricultural Societies of England and Scotland; of the Dendrological Society of France; of the Franche-Comté Forestry Society, and of the Irish Forestry Society. Professor of Forestry, Royal College of Science, Dublin, since 1913; m. 1908, Alice Helen, eldest dau. of Sir Lauder Brunton, 1st Bart. Educ.: Queen's Colleges, Galway and Belfast. Official in Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, 1882-1900. Explorer of the flora of the interior of China, Formosa and Hainan; introduced Lilium Henryi and other Chinese plants; and for these services to Science was elected Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1891). of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1892) and of the Czecho-Slovakian Botanical Society (1921): and was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1902). Studied forestry at Nancy, France: travelled in forests of North America, Algeria, Corsica, Italy, Balkan States, Denmark, Scandinavia, Poland, Bohemia, Silesia, Slovakia, Spain, France, etc. Reader in Forestry, University of Cambridge, 1907-13, during which period the School of Forestry at Cambridge was founded and experiments in breeding new trees were commenced. Publications: Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, in conjunction with H. J. Elwes, F.R.S.; Forests, Woods and Trees in Relation to Hygiene: Notes on Chinese Economic Botany: List of Plants from Formosa; papers in Kew Bulletin, Gardeners' Chronicle, Proceedings Royal Irish Academy, Journal Anthropological Institute, and other scientific periodicals. Res.: 5 Sandford Terrace, Ranelagh, Dublin; Royal College of Science, Dublin.