James Sykes Gamble

James Sykes Gamble ( born July 2, 1847 in London, † October 16, 1925 in Liss, Hampshire ) was an English botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Gamble ".

Life and work

James Sykes Gamble was born in 1847 as son of Harpur Gamble. He attended the Royal Naval School in New Cross (London) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he met the MA completed, and the Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forets in Nancy, France. In 1871 he went to India to the Indian Forest Department, where he obtained the positions Conservator of Forests and Director of the Imperial Forest School. Gamble has held several offices in the university sector and has received several awards. He published several books on the flora of India.

Gamble married Gertrude Latter in 1911.

Ehrentaxa

The genus Gamblea CBClarke from the plant family of Araliaceae ( Araliaceae ) is named after him.

Writings

• The Bambuseae of British India. In: Joseph Dalton Hooker, Flora of British India, Vol 7, 1896.
• Flora of the Presidency of Madras. 1915-1936.

Swell

• Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
• Kurzbiografischer entry at Gamble Family Tree (English)