Thomas Anderson (botanist)

Thomas Anderson ( born February 26, 1832 in Edinburgh, † October 26, 1870 ) was a Scottish botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " T.Anderson "; earlier was also the symbol " T. Anders. " In use.

Anderson worked as a surgeon in India. From 1860 to 1868, he was director of the Botanical Garden Calcutta. He was also the first " Conservator of Forests " in Bengal, where he also collected plants. In 1861 he undertook a collecting trip to Java and the Malay Peninsula.

In 1868 he returned ill back to Scotland and devoted himself to work on the family of the Acanthaceae ( Acanthaceae ). Anderson died in 1870 in Edinburgh.

Works

  • Florula adenensis. In: Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. , 1860.
  • Catalogue of plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. , 1865.
  • On a new genus of Moraceae from Sumatra and Singapore. In: Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 8, 1865, pp. 167-168.

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.
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