XVI International Botanical Congess

Historian of biology, morphologist, and philosopher, Agnes Arber Robertson (23 Feb. 1879 22 Mar. 1960), educated at North London Collegiate School, University College, London, and Newnham College, Cambridge, an early research assistant to anatomist-morphologist Ethel Sargant (1863-1918), in 1909 married renowned paleobotanist Edward Alexander Newell Arber (1870-1918). Her works include seven books (*), a translation, and several long reviews: *Herbals, their origin and evolution,...1470-1670 (1912), * Monocotyledons:...(1925), Root and shoot in the angiosperms: A study of morphological categories, New Phytol. (1930), Floral anatomy and its morphological interpretation, Ibid. (1933), *The Gramineae:...(1934), The interpretation of the flower: A study of some aspects of morphological thought, Biol. Rev. (1937), The interpretation of leaf and root in the angiosperms, Ibid. (1941), Goethe's botany: The Meta-morphosis of plants (1790) and Ktobler's Ode to nature (1782) with an introduction and translations (1946), *The natural philosophy of plant form (1950), *The mind and the eye: a study of the biologist's standpoint (1954), *The manifold and the one (1957). I will discuss these in the context of contemporary reviews and their influence on subsequent botany.