Sydney Howard Vines

Sydney Howard Vines FRS (31 December 1849 – 4 April 1934) was a British botanist and academic. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford University from 1888 to 1919, and served as president of the Linnean Society of London from 1900 to 1904. He directed the publication of the Annals of Botany from 1887 to 1899. He became a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1885 although spelt sIdney.

Works Vines' works include:

Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical, 2nd edition, (1882), edited, with an appendix, by Sydney H. Vines, from the German of Lehrbuch der Botanik by Julius von Sachs

An Elementary Text-book of Botany: From the German of Dr. K. Prantl (1898), The Dillenian Herbaria, (1907).

Additional information His parents' birthnames were William Reynolds and Jessie Robertson. He married an Agnes Bertha Perry in 1884.