George Arnott Walker Arnott

George Arnott Walker Arnott ( born February 6, 1799 in Edinburgh, † June 17, 1868 in Glasgow ) was a Scottish botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Arn "..

Arnott was the director of the Botanical Gardens in Glasgow. The plant genus Arnottia from the orchid family (Orchidaceae) is named after him.

Works

  • Disposition of méthodique espèces de mousses, 1825
  • Tentamen methodological muscorum (along with Robert Kaye Greville ), 1826
  • The botany of Captain Beechey 's voyage, 1830-1841 (together with William Jackson Hooker )
  • Prodromus florae peninulae Indiae orientalis (along with Robert Wight ), 1834
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