Thomas Taylor (botanist)
Thomas Taylor (* 1775 in India , † February 1848 in Dunkerron ) was an Irish doctor, botanist, mycologist and bryologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Taylor ".
Taylor's father was a colonel in the East India Company. He attended Trinity College Dublin with a bachelor's degree in 1807 and an MD as a doctor in 1814. He was then a Fellow of the King and Queen's College of Physicians and a doctor at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. He was a professor of botany and natural history at the Royal Cork Scientific Institution and moved to Dunkerron near Kenmare after its dissolution . There he took care of the population during the Great Famine of 1847/48 and died in early 1848.
In 1814 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and he was an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy . In 1847 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
He dealt mainly with mosses and lichens. After his death, his extensive herbarium was bought in Boston and the Boston Society of Natural History.
William Hooker named the moss genus Tayloria in his honor .
Fonts
- with William Jackson Hooker : Muscologia Britannica. 1818, 2nd edition 1827
He also published with Joseph Dalton Hooker , for example for his Flora Antarctica .
literature
- George Simonds Boulger, Dictionary of National Biography , Online
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taylor, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish botanist and physician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | India |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1848 |
| Place of death | Dunkerron |