John Forbes Royle

John Forbes Royle.

John Forbes Royle (born May 20, 1798 in Kanpur , India , † January 2, 1858 in Acton , Middlesex ) was an English botanist and doctor . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Royle ".

Life

Royle joined the British East India Company as an assistant doctor . He studied botany and geology. From 1823 to 1832 he was head of the Botanical Garden of Saharanpur . In 1834 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1837 to 1856 he held a professorship at King's College London . At the London World's Fair of 1851 he headed the Indian representation. His main work is the Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains , created from 1833 to 1840 .

His son Peter Royle became a well-known doctor.

Honors

The genus Roylea Wall. ex Benth. from the mint family (Lamiaceae) is named after him. In addition, the zoologist William Ogilby named the Royle pika ( Ochotona roylii ) after him.

Fonts

On the Antiquity of Hindu Medicine , 1837
Flora of Cashmere , 2 volumes, 1839
Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains , 1833-1840
An Essay on the Productive Resources of India , 1840
On the Culture and Commerce of Cotton in India and Elsewhere , 1851
The Fibrous Plants of India fitted for Cordage , 1855

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for John Forbes Royle at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ Member entry by John Forbes Royle at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
^ William Ogilby : Memoir on the Mammalogy of the Himalayas. In: John Forbes Royle: Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere. Wm. H. Allen and Co., London 1839; Pp. 118-120. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Royle, John Forbes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English botanist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kanpur , India
DATE OF DEATH	January 2, 1858
Place of death	Acton , Middlesex

[Leopoldina-1] Member entry by John Forbes Royle at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

[Ogilby_1839-3] William Ogilby : Memoir on the Mammalogy of the Himalayas. In: John Forbes Royle: Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere. Wm. H. Allen and Co., London 1839; Pp. 118-120. ( Digitized version ).