Dr.
Harold Fletcher is Regius Keeper of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Endinburgh, Scotland. He was formerly
Director of the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at
Wisley, Ripley, Woking, Surrey (1951-1954).
Dr. Fletcher obtained his B.Sc. at the University
of Manchester in 1929 and his Ph.D. at the Aberdeen
University in 1933. He is a prominent member of the
International Society of Horticultural Science and
Secretary of the International Commission for
Horticultural Nomenclature and Registration of that
Society. He is also Secretary of the International
Commission for the Nomenclature of Culturated Plants
of the International Union of Biological Societies. He
was late Botanist of the Royal Botanic Gardens at
Edinburgh.
Dr. Fletcher is the author of numerous articles in
horticultural and botanic journals. He presented the
major address at the meeting of the International
Society for Horticultural Science at the University of
Maryland in August 1966.
Dr. Fletcher is known as an outstanding educator
and administrator. He has also made the
classifications problems of horticulture and botany
his major interest. He has a broad viewpoint toward
botanical and horticultural science. In some respects
one might well call him an "outstanding hybrid between
botany and horticulture."
