Henry Pearson (1870 1916) was an English botanist specialising in
research on the Gnetophyta division of woody plants. In 1903 he was
elected to the Henry Bolus Professorship of Botany at the South
African College, Cape Town (now known as the University of Cape
Town), and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916
shortly before his death. In 1915 Pearson was commissioned to write
this volume for the Cambridge Botanical Handbooks series. Published
posthumously in 1929, it was the first extensive study on the
Gnetales order and the only such study in English published during
the twentieth century. In it, Pearson investigates the morphology
and reproduction of the three Gnetophyta genera and examines their
relation to the angiosperms (flowering plants). His research on
Gnetophyta was later used together with genetic studies to provide
theories explaining the evolution of seed plants.
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