death_place death_date work_institution birth_place field birth_date article_title name
dartmouth , devon 14 july 1940 indian institute of science lowestoft zoology , botany 8 august 1859 alfred gibbs bourne
 alfred gibbs bourne
alfred gibbs bourne

sir alfred gibbs bourne kcie , dsc , frs , fls -lrb- 8 august 1859 , lowestoft - 14 july 1940 , dartmouth , devon -rrb- was a zoologist , botanist and educator .
bourne was the son of rev. alfred bourne , secretary of the british foreign school society , and he joined the university college school after a liberal home education .
along with his contemporary sydney j. hickson , he was fascinated by the lectures of ray lankester .
he later joined the university college in 1876 and attended the royal school of mines .
in 1886 he went to madras to join the presidency college as professor of biology .
he held this position until 1898 although he also held the positions of registrar and superintendent of the madras government museum .
he was elected a fellow of the royal society in 1895 .
in 1903 he was made director of public instruction and he worked on changes in the secondary education system , being responsible for the introduction of the secondary school leaving certificate system .
after his retirement , he took charge as director of the indian institute of science , holding this position from 1915 to 1921 .
he was knighted as a knight commander of the order of the indian empire in 1913 .
he married emily tree glashier in 1888 .
lady bourne was an acclaimed botanical artist and she teamed up with other artists at kodaikanal to produce illustrations of the local flora .
these illustrations were used in `` the flora of the nilgiri and pulney hill-tops '' by philip furley fyson .
