George Johnston (naturalist)

George Johnston

George Johnston (born July 20, 1797 in Simprin , Berwickshire , † July 30, 1855 in Berwick-upon-Tweed ) was a British naturalist ( zoology , botany ) and doctor. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Johnst. "

Life

Johnston studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh , was a student of John Abercrombie and in 1817 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . In 1818 he became a doctor in Berwick-upon-Tweed and married the following year. He stayed in Berwick and became mayor three times. In 1819 he received his doctorate in medicine (MD) in Edinburgh and in 1824 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1853 he gave up his practice in Berwick.

He was interested in natural history and was the founder of the Ray Society and the Berwick Naturalists Club. He published on zoology and botany and was one of the editors of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany (later the Annals and Magazine of Natural History ) from 1837 .

He received an honorary doctorate in Aberdeen (LLD).

Fonts

• Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 2 volumes, 1829, 1832
• History of British Zoophytes, Transactions of the Newcastle Natural History Society, 1838, 2nd edition 1847.
• The Molluscous Animals, in the English edition of the Animal Kingdom by Georges Cuvier , 1840.
• The History of British Sponges and Lithophytes, 1842.
• Introduction to Conchology, 1850, first as Natural History of Molluscous Animals , John Claudius Loudon's Magazine
• Terra Lindisfarnensis: the Natural History of the Eastern Borders, Volume 1, 1853 (only the first volume appeared)
• Catalog of the British non-parasitical Worms in the Collection of the British Museum, 1865.
• Catalogus animalium et plantarum quæ in insula Lindisfarnensi visa sunt mense Maio, 1854, reprinted in Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 1873

Web links

Wikisource: George Johnston  - Sources and full texts (English)