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Agnes Ibbetson

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372: 47:, rector of Bushey and Archdeacon of St. Albans. James, junior, was a barrister and amateur antiquary who had been admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1771, but he died in 1790 aged 35 leaving Agnes a widow. Sometime after James's death she moved to Devon where she lived for the rest of her life. She died on 9 February 1823 in 67:
Though isolated from the contemporary scientific community, Ibbetson began publishing her plant physiology in her fifties, and approached her work with an observational and experimental bent. Ibbetson made extensive use of microscopes, plant dissection, and other technology to pursue her studies, and
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are preserved some specimens of woods and microscopic slides prepared by her, with a manuscript description stating that they represent twenty-four years' work, and illustrating her erroneous belief that buds originate endogenously and force their way outward.
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She was the daughter of Andrew Thomson Esq., of Roehampton, a London merchant, and was born in London in 1757 and educated at home. In 1783 she married James Ibbetson at Bushey in Hertfordshire. He was the eldest son the Rev.
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on the microscopic structure and physiology of plants, including such subjects as air-vessels, pollen, perspiration, sleep, winter-buds, grafting, impregnation, germination, and the Jussieuean method. In the
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believed that plant functions had mechanical explanations. Between 1809 and 1822 Mrs. Ibbetson contributed more than fifty papers to
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plant physiologist
James Ibbetson
Exmouth
Charles Poulett Thomson
Baron Syndenham
Nicholson's Journal
Philosophical Magazine
botanical
British Museum
John Sims
Cyclopia
"Agnes Ibbetson"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/14348
UK public library membership
"Oxford DNB article: Ibbetson, Agnes"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/14348
UK public library membership
"Flora Feministica: Reflections on the Culture of Botany"


Boulger, George Simonds
"Ibbetson, Agnes" 
Lee, Sidney
Dictionary of National Biography
"Plant name details"
International Plant Names Index

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