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---++ Scientist Sir Michael Foster (1836 - 1907) <img align="Left" alt="Sir Michael Foster " height="420" hspace="5" src="%PUBURL%//Main/Bio/ScientistFosterSirMichael/220px-MichaelFoster.jpg" width="320" /> The highest award presented by the British Iris Society is the [[Main.InfoFosterMemorialPlaque][Foster Memorial Plaque]]. It is even more prestigious than the Dykes Medal. So who was Sir Michael Foster. The short answer is he was the first scientist to engage in experimental taxonomy. This lead to the later work of his student William Rikatson Dykes. But his botanical accomplishments although enormous, are overshadowed by the fact he was also a member of parliament and even more so that he was the foremost Human physiologist of his day and wrote the text that trained many physiologists in subsequent years. Although it would be nice to think his work in Botany earned him his knighthood, it was undoubtedly given for his work in medicine as physician and professor. <font face="Calibri"><font size="3">For more about Sir Michael Foster see the AIS Bulletin #120, </font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">January 1951 p.54 “Contributions of Sir Michael Foster by Randolph.</font></font> For a list of Irises he hybridized or named see [[Main.Bio.HybridizerFosterSir Michael]] Iris publications by Foster: Foster, M., (1881), The Clouded Iris, [[http://books.google.com/books#v=onepage&q=M.%20Foster%20%20Iris&f=false?id=VyYfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA42&dq=M.+Foster++Iris&hl=en&ei=XqGqTtDxHeXq0gGVn7GxDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwADgK][ _The Garden_ p42 July 9, 1881]] Foster, M., (1881), . Foster, M., (1883a), . Foster, M., (1883b), [[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84375#page/247/mode/1up]["Notes on Irises", _The Gardeners' Chronicle_ August 25, p. 231-232]]. Foster, M., (1883c), "Notes on Irises", _The Gardeners' Chronicle_ September 15, p. 331-332. Foster, M., (1883d), Foster, M., (1883e), Foster, M., (1884), . Foster, M., (1884), . Foster, M., (1885), "Garden Flora, Plate 503 The fringed Iris Of Japan ( [[Spec.SpecFimbriata][ _Iris fimbriata_ ]])" [[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82692#page/144/mode/1up][ _The Garden_ p.120 August 1, 1885]]. Foster, M., (1885), <em>. Iris vartani</em> Foster, M., (1885), "So-Called German Irises", [[http://books.google.com/books#v=onepage&q=foster%20german%20irises%20swerti&f=false?id=nCQfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA510&dq=foster+german+irises+swerti&hl=en][The Garden, p.508 November 14, 1885]] Foster, M., (1885) Iris Korolkowii Foster, M., (1885), Foster, M., (1886a), . Foster, M., (1886b), . Foster, M., (1887),<em> Gartenflora</em> xxxvi. 201, t. 1244. see [[Spec.SpecLineata][ _Iris lineata_ ]]. Foster, M., (1887), . Foster, M., (1887), Foster, M., (1887), . _Iris Kingiana, [[Spec.SpecDuthieii][Iris Duthieii]], Iris Hookeriana_. Foster, M., (1887), . _Iris decora, Iris nepalensis, Iris longifolia, Iris milesii._ Foster, M., (1887), . see also [[Spec.SpecLupina][ _Iris lupina_ ]], Iris bilioti, Siwas. Foster, M., (1887), " [[Spec.SpecSariLurida][Iris Sari, var. Lurida]]", . Foster, M., (1888), Iris Korolkowii, . P.36-37. Foster, M., (1888), Irises, [[http://books.google.com/books#v=onepage&q=M.%20Foster%20%20Iris&f=false?id=aaQgAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182&dq=M.+Foster++Iris&hl=en&ei=raOqTrCkGofj0QHc_bnIDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCQ][ _The Gardeners' Chronicle,_ August 18, 1888. P.182-183]]. _I._ _cypriana,_ _I._ _barnumae._ Foster, M., (1889), Iris Rosenbachiana, . Foster, M., (1889), Iris Gatesii, [[http://books.google.com/books#v=onepage&q=M.%20Foster%20%20Iris&f=false?id=xBROAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA309&dq=M.+Foster++Iris&hl=en&ei=IwOrTvC5HuX30gHKhNTEDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAzha][Florist and Nursery Exchange, Vol. 2 No. 1 p. 309]] Foster, M., (1889), Iris caucasica and Iris orchioides, . Foster, M., (1889), Iris Iberica, . Foster, M.,(1889), "On Irises", _Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society_ vol. 11 p.131-149. Foster, M.,(1889), Iris Bakeriana, <em>Curtis's Botanical Magazine, </em>Tab. 7084. Nov. 1st 1889. Foster, M., (1890), Iris Bakeriana,<em> . </em> Foster, M., (1890), Home Correspondence,<em> Iris sindjarensis</em>, <em>.</em> Foster, M., (1890), [[Spu.SpuMonspur]['Monspur']], . Foster, M., (1890), [[Spu.SpuMonspur]['Monspur']], Foster, M., (1892), Iris Lorteti (Barbey). : August 6<em>:</em> Iris Lorteti Foster, M., (1892), Iris Lorteti. . Foster, M., (1892), _I._ _nepalensis_ var.<em> letha,</em> <em>:</em> _I._ _nepalensis_ var.<em> letha</em> ( _collettii_). Foster, M., (1892), Iris nepalensis, <em>.</em> Foster, M., (1892), [[http://books.google.com/books#v=onepage&q=foster%20Iris&f=false?id=E-MCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=foster+Iris&hl=en&ei=Op-qTvWuCOr00gGFvciiDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBQ][ _Bulbous Irises_, London (1892)]], Royal Horticultural Society. Foster, M., (1893), Garden Flora. The Oncocyclus Group of Irises. . Foster, M., (1893), New or Noteworthy Plants. <em>. see [[Spec.SpecAthoa][Iris athoa]].</em> Foster, M., (1893),<em> . Iris Kashmiriana]] </em> Foster, M., (1898), Foster, M.,(1899), _The Gardeners' Chronicle,_ vol. xxv, p.225, _Iris tubergeniana_ Foster, M.,(1899), New or Noteworthy Plants<em>, [[http://books.google.com/books#v=onepage&q=M.%20Foster%20%20Iris&f=false?id=hNwKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA389&dq=M.+Foster++Iris&hl=en&ei=TKeqTurpHeHz0gGEuozACQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBTgU][The Gardeners' Chronicle, p.389, Nov. 25]]</em>,<em> Iris sofarana.</em> Foster, M., (1901), New or Noteworthy Plants, Iris Ewbankiana. _The Gardeners' Chronicle_. 3rd Ser. 29: 397. fig. 152. (407) 22 June. Foster, M., (1901), New or Noteworthy Plants, Iris Willmottiana, _The Gardeners' Chronicle_ p.261-262. April 27, 1901. Foster, M., ex Sprenger, (1901),Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. p.328. _Iris talischii._ Foster, M., (1902), _ ; [[Spec.SpecWarleyensis][I. warleyensis]]. Foster, M., (1902), _ Foster, M., (1902),<em> [[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83819#page/450/mode/1up][The Gardeners' Chronicle,]]</em> vol. xxxi. p. 385-386. Fig. 134; _. I. bucharica; and_ [[Spec.SpecWarleyensis][ _I._ _warleyensis]]_. Foster, M., (1902), _Journal of Horticulture_ Ser. 3, vol. lxiv. p. 339.<em> . [[Spec.SpecWarleyensis][I. warleyensis]].</em> Foster, M., (1903), _Journal of Horticulture_. Ser. 3, vol.xlv. p. 260-261.<em> Iris bucharica</em> figured. Foster, M., (1903), The Identity of Iris Hookeri and the Asian I. Setosa., . _Iris setosa_ var. _canadensis_. Foster, M., (1904), Foster, M., (1906),New or Noteworthy Plants,<em> The Gardeners' Chronicle</em> 3rd. ser., vol.40, p.125, August 25, 1906, _Iris taitii_. -- Main.RPries - 2011-10-14
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