Walter Gardiner facts for kids

Walter Gardiner, FLS, FRS (1 September 1859 – 31 August 1941) was a British botanist. He was educated at Bedford School and at Clare College, Cambridge, and was a Fellow there and Lecturer in Botany at the University. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1898: "For his researches on the protoplasmic connection of the cells of vegetable tissues and on the minute histology of plants."