The phrase "botanist of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to indicate that someone is an expert or specialized in the field of botany. Example: "The conference was attended by botanists of various backgrounds and specialties, from those studying tropical flora to those focused on plant genetics."
John Heslop Harrison the son was a fine botanist of considerable prestige and of impeccable integrity.
Appointed as a foundation government botanist of Victoria in 1853, he moved to Melbourne and traveled throughout the surrounding area conducting extensive botanical studies.
At other times we feel unnerved by the never-ending combat.Tea with Miss JekyllGraham Thomas was in a gardening tradition that stretches back to Theophrastus, the most influential botanist of antiquity.
Shortly after Buffon's death in 1788, his successor, Flahault de la Billarderie, created a salaried position for Lamarck with the title of "botanist of the King and keeper of the King's herbaria".
Carolus Clusius, a noted botanist of the 16th century, for example, brought together an extensive collection of flowering bulbs at the botanical garden in Leiden, Netherlands, which proved to be the beginning of the Dutch bulb industry.
James Grimes, senior botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, said of Mr. Barneby's output of more than 6,500 pages of papers, monographs and journals, "He has perhaps published more pages of monographic and floristic treatments than any other botanist of the 20th century".
The portrait bore the inscription "John Ray", but was clearly not of this botanist contemporary of Hooke's, since numerous other images of Ray survive and this portrait in no way resembled any of them.
One of the leading evolutionary biologists and foremost botanists of the 20th century, he was 94.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 G. Ledyard Stebbins Jr. Dies A leader among evolutionary biologists and botanists of the 20th century, he was 94.
Dr. G. Ledyard Stebbins Jr., one of the leading evolutionary biologists and foremost botanists of the 20th century, died on Wednesday at his home in Davis, Calif.
Even the eminent botanists of Kew, who would have known some plants from drawings or dried specimens, had little idea of the habitat in which they grew.
