David Nelson (botanist)

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David Nelson (* around 1740 ; † July 18/20, 1789 in Kupang , Timor ) was a botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Nelson ".

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Nelson participated in the third circumnavigation of the world by James Cook , which took place in the years 1776-1779. He was on board the Bounty in 1789 . Nelson, who had once worked in Kew Gardens , was supposed to look after 600 breadfruit plants that were brought from Tahiti on the journey of the Bounty . He was one of 18 people who were abandoned in a launch during the mutiny on the Bounty after showing themselves loyal to Captain Bligh . Nelson survived the grueling journey in the open boat by a few weeks, but then died of the consequences of this journey and was buried in an elaborate ceremony in the cemetery for Europeans in Kupang.

In 1792, on another trip, Bligh named Nelson's Hill near Hobart in Tasmania , Australia, after the botanist. The elevation was later named Mount Nelson . Today Hobart University is located there .

Robert Brown named the plant genus Nelsonia of the acanthus family (Acanthaceae) in his honor .

literature

  • Harold St. John: Biography of David Nelson, and an Account of His Botanizing in Hawaii . In: Pacific Science . Volume 30, Number 1, 1976, pp. 1-5 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bounty-project.de
  2. ↑ David Nelson in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lareau-01&id=I4574
personal data
SURNAME Nelson, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION botanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1740
DATE OF DEATH between July 18, 1789 and July 20, 1789
Place of death Kupang , Timor