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Sir William Wright Smith FRS FRSE FLS VMH LLD (2 February 1875 Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire - 15 December 1956) was a Scottish botanist and horticulturalist. ==Life== He was born in Lochmaben, the son of James T. Smith. Educated at Dumfries Academy and then University of Edinburgh, he studied at postgraduate level in Toulouse. He rose to become the Queen's Botanist in Scotland, the Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Aberdeen University granted him an honorary doctorate {LLD). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1919, his proposers being Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, James Hartley Ashworth and Donald Cameron McIntosh. He served as Secretary to the Society 1923-28, Vice-President 1928-31 and President 1944-49. He won the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for 1940-42. He was knighted in 1932.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf〕 Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Wright Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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