> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 379](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265106) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13093-1) LSID 13093-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522120) QID Q21522120 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Newton, Lily|first entry]] for this author ### Author Batten, Lily (1893-1981), British botanist, mainly algologist, educated at Colston's Girl's School, Bristol, studied botany at the University of Bristol 1914-1917, B.Sci. ib. 1917, M.Sci. 1918, Ph.D. 1922, assistant lecturer in botany at Bristol University 1919-1920, lecturer in botany at Birbeck College, University of London 1920-1921, research worker at Imperial College, London 1923-1925, married W.F.C. Newton 1925, research worker John Innes Horticultural Institute 1927-1928, lecturer in botany University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 1928, professor of botany ib. 1930-1958, professor emeritus 1959 (*L. Batten*, from 1925) **Abbreviated name**: *L. Newton* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.Newton*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Note Lily Batten published 5 papers before her marriage, from 1925 she published as Lily Newton (15 publ.), see TL-2/3: 739. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 139 (Batten), 3: 1 (Newton); BM 7: 921; GR p. 408; Kew 4: 139; LS 1925; Plesch p. 348; TL-2/6780 (Newton). #### Biofile - Arber, A., Water-plants 188, 353. 1920. - Hawksworth, D.L. and M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 56. 1977. - Jones, G., Brit. phycol. J. 17: 1-4. 1 Mar 1982 (obit., bibl., portr., b. 26 Jan 1893, Pensford, Somerset, d. Mar 1981). ### Publications ##### n.20.396. Polysiphonia **Title** The genus *Polysiphonia*, Grev., a critical revision of the British species, based upon anatomy... Extracted from the Linnean Society's Journal-Botany... 1923. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1923 (in journal), p. \[271\]-311, *pl. 22-25* (uncol. drawings by author). *Copy*: L. − Reprinted and to be cited from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 46: 271-311, *pl. 22-25.* 1923.