Sir Edward James Salisbury, (1886-1978), was a British botanist in the early part of the Twentieth Century. He was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from 1943 to 1956. In 1946, he was made a knight. 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ... The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond upon Thames and Kew in southwest London, England. ... Kew is a place in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest London. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...

The standard botanical author abbreviation E.Salisb. is applied to species he described. In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... In biology, a species is, loosely speaking, a group of related organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. ...

Published works

• The Living Garden, 1936
• The Reproductive Capacity of Plants, 1942
• Flowers of the Woods, 1946
• Downs and Dunes, 1952
• Weeds and Aliens, 1961
• The Biology of Garden Weeds, 1962