George Thomson (botanist)
George Thomson (26 May 1819 – 14 December 1878) was a Scottish missionary in Cameroon who collected plants to send to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and to the British Museum.
Thomson was born in
sustainable building
. George and Alexander were partners in an architectural practice in Glasgow early in their careers.
In 1870, George Thomson was sent by the
epiphytic orchid of the genus Pachystoma, which was named Pachystoma thomsonianum in Thomson's honour.[2] It is now known as Ancistrochilus thomsonianus
.
Thomson died in Victoria from malaria on 14 December 1878.[3]
His nephew,
References
- ^ ISBN 0-85066-843-3.
- ^ ISBN 0-9553515-0-2.
- ISBN 978-0-554-52598-3.
- ^ Balfour, J.H. Description of a new species of Clerodendron... Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n.s., 15(2): 233–235, t. 2. 1862.
- ISBN 0-8493-2675-3.
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