Botanik. This translation introduces the Continental system of botanical taxonomy to English-speaking botanists. The first edition of the translation A Handbook of Systematic Botany was published in March 1894 with a second edition in July 1894. In 1909 Potter gave the British Mycological Society's presidential address entitled Bacteria in their relation to plant pathology. During WW I, Potter was a volunteer in a Newcastle signaling unit, created for home defence. He also took Holy Orders in the Church of England to relieve younger clergymen whose ranks had been depleted by the demands of the British Armed Forces. In Newcastle upon Tyne he was ordained a deacon in 1918 and a priest in 1919. From 1918 to 1925 he was canon of St George's, Newcastle-on-Tyne. From 1940 to 1948 he had permission to officiate in the diocese of Winchester. He pursued campanology as a hobby. Potter retired from his professorship of botany in 1925. By the time of his retirement, the department of botany, headed and developed by him, employed four lecturers and there were 167 students of science, agriculture, or medicine attending courses in the department. On 4 December 1884 he was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. His botanical specimens are stored at the University of Cambridge and at the National Museum of Wales. Selected publications Articles Books References 1858 births 1948 deaths 19th-century British botanists 20th-century British botanists English mycologists British phytopathologists Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Academics of the University of Cambridge Academics of Newcastle University 20th-century Church of England clergy 20th-century Anglican priests Fellows of the Linnean Society of London