Background
Bor was born in Tramore, County Waterford in Eire in 1893 the son of E.C.N. Bor and Mabel Thornton.
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Climbers and shrubs constitute a large and important sector of ornamental horticulture. This authoritative, and sumptuously illustrated guide describes a very wide range of the climbers and shrubs of the Indian subcontinent, with notes on distribution and gardening. Besides the 31 colour and 99 monochrome plates, there are line drawings of the stem, leaves and flowers of all the 154 species treated. The book is designed to be useful not only to gardeners and nature enthusiasts but to botanists as well. Besides general descriptions, detailed botanical descriptions are also provided.
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Bor was born in Tramore, County Waterford in Eire in 1893 the son of E.C.N. Bor and Mabel Thornton.
He studied at Kilkenny and Mountjoy School in Dublin. He then received a Bachelor at Dublin University before travelling to Scotland to obtain a Bachelor of Science at Edinburgh University in 1921.
He was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society in 1962. On graduating he received a post in the Indian Forest Service where he worked until 1948. During the First World War he served in the Connaught Rangers in France, Greece and Palestine.
He was wounded in 1916.
In 1948 he returned to Britain to take up the post of Assistant Director of Kew Gardens in London. He held this post until 1959 when he retired.
They had no children. In 1962 the Linnean Society awarded him their gold medal, the highest recognition a botanist can receive.
He died in London in 1972.
President of the Indian Botanical Society
Fellow of the Linnean Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1947).
(Climbers and shrubs constitute a large and important sect...)
Member of the Indian National Science Academy
President of the Indian Botanical Society
Fellow of the Linnean Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1947).