Isaac Rand
Isaac Rand ( * 1674, † May 1743 in Westminster ) was an English chemist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " edge ".
Life
Isaac Rand was probably the son of the London pharmacist James Rand. He owned a pharmacy in London's Haymarket.
As a botanist he appeared for the first time in appearance, as mentioned him Plukenet Leonard in his 1700 published work Almagesti botanici mantissa as the discoverer of a plant from the London area. Already on February 22, 1704 struck him Hans Sloane ago for inclusion in the Royal Society. His recording, but was only on 5 November 1719.
In 1707 he leased, James Petiver, Joseph Miller ( † 1748) and others, the site of the Chelsea Physic Garden to support the work of the London pharmacist society. After the death of James Petiver he was appointed demonstrator of the garden. He held this position until 1738. His duties there included the annual presentation of a catalog with 50 plants grown at the Chelsea Physic Garden. These plants catalogs regularly appeared in the Philosophical Transactions. When Hans Sloane in 1722 represented a portion of his land for the expansion of the Chelsea Physic Garden has to offer, he had made these annual catalogs to the condition. Since that time, Philip Miller was employed as a gardener there.
1724 was the first edge of the Chelsea Physic Garden Praefectus Horti. In his index plantarum Horti officinalium Chelseiani of 1730, he described the medical use of 518 plants in the garden. In his time as a garden director falls a visit to the Garden by Carl Linnaeus in 1736 and the support of Elizabeth Blackwell, as these there customized the drawings for A Curious Herbal.
Isaac Rand died in May 1743 the parish of St. James, Westminster.
Ehrentaxon
William Houstoun named in his honor, the genus of the plant family Rubiaceae Randia ( Rubiaceae ). Linnaeus later took the name.
Writings
- Index plantarum officinalium: quas ad materiae medicae scientiam promovendam in Horto Chelseiano ali ac demonstrative curavit Societas Pharmaceutica Londinensis. London, 1730
- Horti Medici Chelseiani index compendiarius: exhibens nomina plantarum quas ad rei herbariae praecipue materia medicas scientiam promovendam ali curavit Societas Pharmacopoeorum Londinensium. London, 1737