Maxwell T. Masters
Maxwell Tylden Masters ( born April 15, 1833 in Canterbury, † May 30, 1907 in Ealing, Middlesex ) was an English physician and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " mast. "
Life and work
He studied at King's College London and in 1862 received his doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the University of St Andrews. In 1858 he married Ellen Tress. She bore him four children. From 1855 to 1868, he was a research position as an assistant in botany at the University Hospital Center of St. George. At the same time, he worked from 1856 as a town doctor. In 1870, he was inducted into the Royal Society. He was also a member of the Linnean Society of London.
He is best known as the author of numerous scientific papers as Vegetable Teratology (1869). He was from 1865 to 1907 editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle. In his time he was considered significant expert for the passion flower plants ( Passifloraceae ).