Max Walters is a former Director of the Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge. His interest in John Stevens Henslow stems from his book The Shaping of Cambridge Botany (1981), which considers in part the role played by Henslow in establishing The University Botanic Garden on its present site.
Anne Stow is a former Librarian of the Scientific Periodicals Library at the University of Cambridge. She has also worked with the Cambridge Philosophical Society, whose founders include John Stevens Henslow, taking specific responsibility for their archives, book collection and archive index.