Sir Edward James SalisburyCBEFRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978)^[1] was an Englishbotanist and ecologist. He was born inHarpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated inbotany fromUniversity College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained aD.Sc. with a thesis on fossil seeds and was appointed a senior lecturer atEast London College. He returned toUniversity College London as a senior lecturer, from 1924 as a reader inplant ecology and from 1929 asQuain Professor ofbotany.

Salisbury was director of theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1943 to 1956.^[2] He was responsible for the restoration of the gardens after theSecond World War.

He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society on 15 March 1933 and won the society'sRoyal Medal in 1945 for "his notable contributions to plant ecology and to the study of the British flora generally".^[3] In 1936, he was awardedThe Veitch Memorial Medal of theRoyal Horticultural Society in acknowledgement of his bookThe Living Garden (1935), which was enormously popular.^[4] In 1939, he received theCommander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1946 he wasknighted.

At first, his research was focussed onforest ecology, particularly in his nativeHertfordshire. Later, he pioneered investigations of seed size and reproductive output of plants in relation to habitat. He also investigated the ecology of garden weeds and ofdune plants.

He was elected President of the Sussex Wildlife Trust in January 1962, where he remained in office until April 1967.

• The Living Garden. 1936
• Flowers of the Woods. 1946

• Durand, Théophile;Benjamin Daydon Jackson;William Turner Thiselton-Dyer;David Prain; Arthur William Hill; Edward James Salisbury (1908).Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum: Supplementum Tertium Nomina et Synonyma Omnium Generum et Specierum AB Initio Anni MDCCCCI Usque AD Finem Anni MDCCCCV Complectens.Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1935).The Living garden, or the how and why of garden life. London:George Bell & Sons. Unknown ID: N000193912.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1942).The Reproductive Capacity of Plants. London:George Bell & Sons.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1952).Downs and Dunes: their plant life and its environment. London:George Bell & Sons.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1961).Weeds and Aliens. The New Naturalists. Vol. 43. London:Collins.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1962).The Biology of Garden Weeds. TheRoyal Horticultural Society.

• Salisbury, E.J. (1916) The emergence of the aerial organs in woodland plants. Journal of Ecology 4 (3–4): 121–128.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1920) The significance of the calcicolous habit. Journal of Ecology 8 (1): 202–215.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1922) Stratification and Hydrogen-ion concentration of the soil in relation to leaching and plant succession with special reference to woodlands. Journal of Ecology 9 (2): 220–240.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1925) The incidence of species in relation to soil reaction. Journal of Ecology 13 (1): 149–160.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1925) Note on the edaphic succession in some dune soils with special reference to the time factor. Journal of Ecology 13 (2): 322–328.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1925) Note on the edaphic succession in some dune soils with special reference to the time factor. Journal of Ecology 13 (2): 322–328.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1926) The geographical distribution of plants in relation to climatic factors. The Geographical Journal 67 (4): 312–335. Discussion on pp. 335–342 byH.N. Ridley a.o.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1927) On the causes and ecological significance of stomatal frequency with special reference to woodland flora. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B 216 (1928): 1–65.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1929) The biological equipment of species in relation to competition. Journal of Ecology 17 (2): 197–222.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1930) Mortality amongst plants and its bearing on natural selection. Nature 125 : 817. Commented by Ronald A. Fisher (1930) in Nature 125: 972–973.; Reply by Salisbury in Nature 126: 95–96.
• Salisbury, E.J. (1971) The pioneer vegetation of exposed muds and its biological features. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 259 : 207–255.
• Salisbury, E. (1974) Seed size and mass in relation to environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 186 (1083): 83–88.
• Salisbury, E. (1975) The survival value of modes of dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 188 (1091): 183–188.
• Salisbury, E. (1976) Seed output and the efficacy of dispersal by wind. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 192 (1108): 323–329.

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