Sir Edward James Salisbury CBE FRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978)[1] was an English botanist and ecologist.
He returned to University College London as a senior lecturer, from 1924 as a reader in plant ecology and from 1929 as Quain Professor of botany.
[3] In 1936, he was awarded The Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in acknowledgement of his book The Living Garden (1935), which was enormously popular.
Later, he pioneered investigations of seed size and reproductive output of plants in relation to habitat.
He was elected President of the Sussex Wildlife Trust in January 1962, where he remained in office until April 1967.