Thomas Thomson (botanist)

Thomas Thomson ( born December 4, 1817 in Glasgow, † April 18, 1878 in London) was a British botanist. He was the son of a chemist Thomas Thomson. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Thomson ".

Life and work

Thomson was chemistry professor and doctor at the British East India Company before he became a botanist. His friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, he helped with the writing of the first volume of the Flora Indica.

He was from 1855 to 1861 director of the Botanical Garden Calcutta.

Ehrentaxon

He was the paleobotanical plant genus Thoma Sonia Wall in honor. named.

Works

  • Western Himalaya and Tibet, 1852

Swell

  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 15th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8001-5072-7.
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