Andrew Thomas Gage
Andrew Thomas Gage ( born December 14, 1871 in Aberdeen, Scotland, † 21 January 1945 Strathpepper, Ross, Scotland) was a Scottish botanist and a military doctor. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Gage ".
Life and work
Andrew Thomas Gage was born the son of Robert Gage in Aberdeen. After the completion of the Grammar School in Old Aberdeen, he studied botany and medicine at the University of Aberdeen, where 1891 1893 graduated as a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in 1896, Bachelor of Medicine. From 1894 to 1896 he was a field doctor in the military rank of lieutenant ( Surg. - Lieut. ) At the Indian Medical Service. From 1897 to 1898 he was curator of the herbarium of the Indian Botanical Gardens in Howrah. From 1898 to 1905 he was director of the botanical garden. Between 1917 and 1918 he was responsible for the production of quinine from the cinchona on behalf of the army in British India.
1901 Gage Fellow of the Linnean Society was. From 1924 to 1929 he was librarian and assistant secretary of this society.
Andrew Thomas Gage was a passionate plant collector and contributed among other things, for the Botanical Survey of India and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew botanical collections in Malaysia, Burma, Sikkim, Assam and Chittagong together.