Agnes (née Thomson ) Ibbetson (1757–1823) was an English plant physiologist .
14-954: Ibbetson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Agnes Ibbetson (1757–1823), English vegetable physiologist Arthur Ibbetson (1922–1997), British cinematographer David Ibbetson , British legal scholar Denzil Ibbetson , KCSI (1847–1908), administrator in British India and an author Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood (1826–1902), 7th Baronet 1869–1892, and British Conservative politician Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817), British 18th-century landscape and watercolour painter Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson (1799–1869), 19th century geologist, inventor, organiser and soldier Peter Ibbetson , American black-and-white drama film released in 1935 Peter Ibbetson (opera) , opera in three acts by American composer Deems Taylor Robert Ibbetson (1789–1880), colonial governor of
28-499: A "pioneering and uncertain attempt" to make a living from publishing it. Revenues came only from subscriptions. Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine was more successful as a popular science journal business than Nicholson's journal, according to one source, and another such journal appeared in 1813 ( Annals of Philosophy ). Possibly partly because of this competition, William Nicholson ended the journal. By some accounts Nicholson's journal simply ceased, and by others it merged in 1814 with
42-615: A London merchant, and was born in London in 1757 and educated at home. In 1783 she married James Ibbetson at Bushey in Hertfordshire. He was the eldest son the Rev. James Ibbetson , rector of Bushey and Archdeacon of St. Albans. James, junior, was a barrister and amateur antiquary who had been admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1771, but he died in 1790 aged 35 leaving Agnes a widow. Sometime after James's death she moved to Devon where she lived for
56-779: The Philosophical Magazine on the microscopic structure and physiology of plants, including such subjects as air-vessels, pollen, perspiration, sleep, winter-buds, grafting, impregnation, germination, and the Jussieuean method. In the botanical department of the British Museum are preserved some specimens of woods and microscopic slides prepared by her, with a manuscript description stating that they represent twenty-four years' work, and illustrating her erroneous belief that buds originate endogenously and force their way outward. The leguminous genus Ibbetsonia
70-509: The Philosophical Magazine to form The Philosophical Magazine and Journal . The "Advertisement", dated 31 December 1813, at the start of Volume 42 of The Philosophical Magazine . states: "Nearly seventeen years have elapsed since The Philosophical Journal was commenced by Mr. Nicholson, and sixteen since the appearance of the first number of The Philosophical Magazine . [...] [T]he result of [...] deliberations [between
84-588: The Arts , generally known as Nicholson's Journal , was the first monthly scientific journal in Great Britain. William Nicholson began it in 1797 and was the editor until it merged with another journal in January 1814. Nicholson's journal would accept short papers, written by new or anonymous authors, and decide whether to publish them relatively quickly. These attributes distinguished the new journal from
98-500: The Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore from 1832 to 1834 See also [ edit ] Peter Ibbetson (novel) , 1891 novel by George du Maurier , late adapted to stage and screen [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Ibbetson . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
112-645: The end of this trial period in June 1814, because of the perceived "confusion and risque of many errors" when referring to future volumes; from July 1814 a single numeration was used, following the numbering of The Philosophical Magazine. Complete journal issues have been scanned and are available online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library and at archive.org thanks to the Natural History Museum Library, London ,
126-486: The established scientific journal The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . By one account this less-formal model was so appealing that the next year (1798) a similar startup launched, Alexander Tilloch 's Philosophical Magazine , and in January 1813, a further rival, Thomas Thomson's Annals of Philosophy . By one account, William Nicholson started the journal and made all editorial decisions in
140-399: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ibbetson&oldid=1171845370 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Agnes Ibbetson She was the daughter of Andrew Thomson Esq., of Roehampton,
154-526: The publishers of Nicholson's Philosophical Journal and The Philosophical Magazine in order to respond to readers' complaints regarding duplication of material in the two publications] has been that it would certainly be best that we should unite, and that the joint product of our exertions and our correspondence should be consolidated in one periodical work. [...] The Philosophical Journal will henceforth be discontinued; and The Philosophical Magazine will be conducted by William Nicholson and Alexander Tilloch, in
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#1732793410840168-824: The rest of her life. She died on 9 February 1823 in Exmouth , aged 66. Her nephew was Charles Poulett Thomson , who was a politician and become the first Governor of Canada, being raised to the peerage as Baron Syndenham . Ibbetson was left with an annuity and comfortable financial circumstances. Though isolated from the contemporary scientific community, Ibbetson began publishing her plant physiology in her fifties, and approached her work with an observational and experimental bent. Ibbetson made extensive use of microscopes, plant dissection, and other technology to pursue her studies, and believed that plant functions had mechanical explanations. Between 1809 and 1822 Mrs. Ibbetson contributed more than fifty papers to Nicholson's Journal and
182-434: The same manner as it has always been carried on." For the duration of Volume 43 (January to June 1814) the joint publishers of the new merged journal provided duplicate title-pages for each number, ostensibly so that subscribers to Nicholson's Philosophical Magazine might be enabled to "preserve their Series without a chasm." However, despite their intention to continue this scheme of two-fold numeration, they abandoned it at
196-459: Was dedicated to her by John Sims , but is now considered identical with the Cyclopia of Ventenat. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : " Ibbetson, Agnes ". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Nicholson%27s Journal A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and
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