President of the Geological Society of London 1924-26 Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge 1925 Royal Medal of the Royal Society 1930 President of the Fifth International Botanical Congress 1930 Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society 1931 President of the International Union of Biological Sciences 1931 Publication of "Plant Life Through the Ages" 1934 Darwin Medal of the Royal Society 1936 Knighthood conferred 1939 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Selected publications Fossil Floras of Cape Colony (1903) More Letters of Charles Darwin (Volume 1, Volume 2, 1903) [with Francis Darwin] Darwin and Modern Science (1909) Links With the Past in the Plant World (1911) Science and the Nation (1917) Plant Life Through the Ages (1933) References External links 1863 births 1941 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Botanists with author abbreviations British botanists British geologists Charles Darwin biographers Fellows of the Geological Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society Masters of Downing College, Cambridge Paleobotanists Presidents of the British Science Association Royal Medal winners Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Wollaston Medal winners Members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Professors of Botany (Cambridge)