Education and Career
Vines studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, obtaining his Bachelor of Sciences in 1873, Bachelor of Arts in 1876, Master of Arts in 1879, and his Doctorate in 1883. He became a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1885. He wrote Lectures on the Physiology of Plants (1886) and in 1895 published A Student’s Text-Book of Botany, and among the books he co-wrote are Science Lectures at South Kensington (1878), An Elementary Text-book of Botany (1880), A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany (1887), Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical (1892), An Account of the Herbarium of the University of Oxford (1897), An Elementary Text-book of Botany: From the German of Dr. K. Prantl (1898), The Dillenian Herbaria, (1907).
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