Physiologist and Author. He was joint editor with E. Ray Lankester of The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. His chief writings were a Textbook of Physiology (1876), which became a standard work, and Lectures on the History of Physiology during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries (1901), which consisted of lectures delivered at the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, in 1900. He was an elected member of Parliament between 1900-1906, representing the University of London. An avid iris gardener, he was the binomial author of the plant species, Iris lineata Foster ex Regel, which was originally described and published in Gartenflora (1887), and later cited in Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1888). In scientific botanical description, the name Foster is used when referencing this person as the author.
Physiologist and Author. He was joint editor with E. Ray Lankester of The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. His chief writings were a Textbook of Physiology (1876), which became a standard work, and Lectures on the History of Physiology during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries (1901), which consisted of lectures delivered at the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, in 1900. He was an elected member of Parliament between 1900-1906, representing the University of London. An avid iris gardener, he was the binomial author of the plant species, Iris lineata Foster ex Regel, which was originally described and published in Gartenflora (1887), and later cited in Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1888). In scientific botanical description, the name Foster is used when referencing this person as the author.
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