Robert Henry Corstophine

[David Price]

From Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists: Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers

"CORSTORPHINE, Robert Henry (1874–1942)
b. Arbroath, Angus 13 Nov. 1874 d. Arbroath 25 March 1942
BSc St. Andrews 1897. FLS 1933. Lecturer in chemistry at Glasgow and Dundee. Managing director, T.Buncle, printers. Had herb. of Angus flora.
Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Br.
1st. Rep. 1941–42, 451–53 portr. N. Western Nat. 1942, 152–53,257–61 portr. Proc. Linn. Soc. 1941–42, 272. I.Ingram and H.J.Noltie Fl. Angus 1981, xlv–xlvi. J.A. Macdonald Plant Sci. & Scientists in St. Andrews…1984, 28–29.
Plants and notes at Dundee Univ."

Corstophine commenced 'Flora of Angus' which was continued by Sir George Taylor.

Buncle were formerly BSBI's printers.