Lansdown Guilding
Lansdown Guilding (born May 9, 1797 in St. Vincent , † October 22, 1831 in Bermuda ) was a British clergyman, botanist , zoologist and entomologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Guilding ".
Life
Guilding was born the son of a pastor on St. Vincent and grew up in England from 1802, where he studied at Oxford (BA 1817). In 1817 he was back in St. Vincent and succeeded his father, who died in 1818, as rector of St. George's Anglican Church in St. Vincent. He died on vacation in Bermuda.
In 1820 he was in England again (probably to get married). From his first marriage he had five children. His first wife died in 1827 and he remarried a year later. On his death he left a widow with six children.
He published on flora and fauna of the Caribbean in British scientific journals such as the Zoological Journal and the Transactions of the Linnean Society and corresponded with Charles Darwin and the botanists Aylmer Bourke Lambert and William Jackson Hooker , for whom he also provided botanical collectibles from the Caribbean posed. He is also known among botanists for describing the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which was founded in 1765. He also had access to the records of Alexander Anderson (1748-1811), who was director of the Botanical Garden in St. Vincent from 1785. Guilding often illustrated his descriptions of plants and animals himself.
He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London . Several animal and plant species are named after him (such as Croton guildingii , Calliandra guildingii , Asplenium guildingii , Crematomia guildingiana and the genus Guildingia ). He first described Peripatus (1826).
He wanted to write a Fauna and Pomona Occidentalis , but his manuscripts are lost, as is his Table of Colors arranged for Naturalists , which he presented to the Wernerian Society in Edinburgh in 1825. Guilding also planned to describe the island's volcanic geology with the Soufrière volcano , which the former director of the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, Alexander Anderson, described.
Fonts
- An Account of the Botanic Garden in the Island of St. Vincent, Glasgow 1825
literature
- Richard A. Howard, Elizabeth Howard: The Reverend Lansdown Guilding 1797–1831 . In: Phytologia Vol. 58, No. 2, 1985, pp. 105-164 (with letters from Guilding) online .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Landsdown Guilding: The natural history of Xylocopa teredo and Horia maculata . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Volume 14, 1825, pp. 313-317.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guilding, Lansdown |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British clergyman, botanist, zoologist and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Vincent |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1831 |
| Place of death | Bermuda |