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In addition to the two mathematical papers mentioned in the 'Catalogue of Scientific Papers', he wrote 'On the Mathematical Relations of the Forms of the Cells of Plants', in the 'British Association Report' for 1835, erroneously attributed in the above-mentioned catalogue to his successor. He was
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His best-known work is a thin quarto entitled 'Analysis per differentias constantes viginti, inchoata, generum plantarum quæ in Britanniis, Gallia, Helvetia . . . sponte sua crescunt', London, 1828. In 1844 he privately brought out an abstract of a memoir read in 1811 before the
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In consequence of this intimacy, Dr. Allman arranged lectures in 1812 on the natural system, he being the first professor in the British isles to do so. He held the chair of botany until 1844 when he was succeeded by Dr.
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at Dublin in 1835, and printed in its 'Proceedings'. This was afterwards more developed and issued under the title 'Familiæ Plantarum', Dublin, 1836, as a textbook for his classes.
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also the author of an 'arrangement of plants' according to their natural affinities, which was read before the
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until 1809 when he was elected Professor of Botany at
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in 1801, and M.D. in 1804. He practised medicine in
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William G. Allman
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Trinity College in the University of Dublin
George Dames Burtchaell
Thomas Ulick Sadleir
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