Robert Graham (botanist)

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Robert Graham

Robert Graham (born December 3, 1786 in Stirling , † August 7, 1845 in Coldoch , Perthshire ) was a Scottish doctor and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Graham ".

Life

Graham, the son of a doctor, studied medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, graduating in Edinburgh in 1808. After training as a surgeon at St. Bartholomew Hospital in London, he was at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary from 1812. In 1816 he became professor of botany in Glasgow as the successor to Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs (1774-1853), held the first chair of botany in Glasgow from 1818, was instrumental in the creation of the Botanical Gardens in Glasgow and in 1820 became Regius Professor of Botany and Medicine in Edinburgh, where he was also a hospital doctor at the Royal Infirmary. He also ran the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh with good success .

He wrote a Flora of Great Britain, but it was not completed. A number of initial descriptions come from him.

In 1831 he became a member of the Leopoldina and since 1821 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . From 1840 to 1842 he was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In 1836 he was the first president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.

Fonts

  • Practical observations on continued fever, Glasgow 1818

Honors

The plant genus Graemia Hook is named after him . from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert Graham  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
  • Biographical sketch of the late Robert Graham, MD, FRS [electronic resource]: being the annual address delivered before the Harveian Society of Edinburgh, on April 11th, 1846 (sixty-fourth anniversary) by Ransford, Charles; Harveian Society of Edinburgh; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library Digitalisat archive.org

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Robert Graham
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Graham, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British botanist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Stirling
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1845
Place of death Coldoch