James Donn
James Donn (* 1758 ; † June 14, 1813 in Monivaird , Perthshire ) was an English botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Donn ".
Donn first worked under William Aiton in the royal botanical gardens of Kew . From 1790 until his death in 1813 he was a conservator at the Cambridge Botanical Gardens . In 1796 he published a list of the plants in this garden for the first time, which was continuously updated in the following decades: Hortus cantabrigiensis, or, A catalog of plants, indigenous and foreign, cultivated in the Walkerian Botanic Garden , Cambridge, 1796.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for James Donn at the IPNI
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| SURNAME | Donn, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1758 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1813 |
| Place of death | Monivaird , Perthshire |