John Horne (botanist)

John Horne (* January 1835 in Lethendy, Perthshire, Scotland, † April 16, 1905 in Jersey ) was a Scottish botanist and plant collector. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Horne ".

Life and work

At the age of 12 years left Horne, caused by the death of his father, the community school Longforgan near Dundee, to support his mother while making a livelihood. After working in several places in Scotland, he began in 1859 as an employee at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he worked until January 1860. After a short time in Regent's Park, London in 1861, he was assistant to director James Duncan ( 1802-1876 ) and since 1877 director of the Pamplemousses Botanical Garden in Mauritius in August. He also worked as director of gardens and forests and as a surveyor. On behalf of the Mauritian government, he traveled to the Seychelles, where he in 1871 and 1874, the first complete botanical collection undertook, and to Ceylon to study the Chininindustrie. From 1876 to 1877 he conducted research on the botanical and agricultural resources of the Fiji Islands, which he published in 1881 a book. 1890 Horne moved to the Channel Island of Jersey, where he died in April 1905. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

Dedikationsnamen

The plant species Cyathea hornei ( Baker) Copeland of Fiji and Martellidendron hornei Balf. f, Hibiscus hornei Baker ( valid name: Hibiscus physaloides ) Costularia hornei ( CBClarke ) and Northia hornei Hook.f. (Synonym: Northia seychellana ) from the Seychelles were named in honor of John Horne.