George Don Junior
George Don (born May 17, 1798 in Doo Hillock , Forfarshire , † February 25, 1856 in Kensington , London ) was a Scottish botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " G.Don ".
Life
His father of the same name, George Don (1764-1814), was in 1802 "Superintendent" of the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens .
George Don was the brother of the even better known botanist David Don . In 1816 he became head of the Gardens of Chelsea , London ( Chelsea Physic Garden ). In 1821 he traveled to Brazil , the West Indies and Sierra Leone for the Royal Horticultural Society (London) to collect plants. Most of the plants he discovered were published by Joseph Sabine ; Don himself first described some new species from Sierra Leone.
Don's main work is a four-volume work, published from 1813 to 1838, which was published under the two titles A general history of the dichlamydeous plants ... and A General System of Gardening and Botany . In addition, he was the reviser of the first supplementary volume for the Encyclopaedia of Plants by John Claudius Loudon ; he also wrote a monograph on the genus Allium .
literature
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for George Don junior at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Don, George Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Don, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doo Hillock , Forfarshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1856 |
| Place of death | Kensington , London |