Michael Hickey trained in botany and horticulture before embarking on a teaching career that has spanned over 40 years, ranging from teaching biology to school children ' throughto instructing adults in basic botany and the art of botanical illustration. Awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Silver Gilt and Silver Lindley Medals for his pen and ink drawings, he has exhibited in the UK and the USA and has contributed illustrations to numerous publications.
He is author of Plant Names : A Guide for Botanical Artists (1993), Dmming Plants in Pen ant lnk (1994), and Botany for Beginners (1999). With Clive King, he has co-authored 100 Families of Flowering Plants (1981, 1988) and Common Families of Flowering Plant, (1997) . Clive King spent over thirty years at the University Botanic Garden, Cambridge as Assistant Taxonomist and Librarian. During that time he was involved in the identification of plants belonging to a wide range of families, the botanical instruction of the annual intake of students, and the day-to-day running of the specialist library housed there.
He has translated Collins Guide to Tropical Plants (1983) and Collins Photoguide to the Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean (1990), and has co-translated Collin Photographic Key to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe (1988), all from the original editions in German. With Michael Hickey he has co-authored 100 Families of Flowering Plants (1981, 1988) and Common Families of Flowering Plants (1997).
He is author of Plant Names : A Guide for Botanical Artists (1993), Dmming Plants in Pen ant lnk (1994), and Botany for Beginners (1999). With Clive King, he has co-authored 100 Families of Flowering Plants (1981, 1988) and Common Families of Flowering Plant, (1997) . Clive King spent over thirty years at the University Botanic Garden, Cambridge as Assistant Taxonomist and Librarian. During that time he was involved in the identification of plants belonging to a wide range of families, the botanical instruction of the annual intake of students, and the day-to-day running of the specialist library housed there.
He has translated Collins Guide to Tropical Plants (1983) and Collins Photoguide to the Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean (1990), and has co-translated Collin Photographic Key to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe (1988), all from the original editions in German. With Michael Hickey he has co-authored 100 Families of Flowering Plants (1981, 1988) and Common Families of Flowering Plants (1997).