Isaac Anderson-Henry
Isaac Anderson-Henry | |
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horticulturist | |
| Awards | Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Isaac Anderson-Henry of Woodend
horticulturist
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Life
A lawyer in practice in Edinburgh, he is shown as Isaac Anderson SSC in 1840, living at 14 Maryfield, and having offices nearby at 4 Montgomery Street.
He retired from law practice in 1861 upon his wife's inheritance of estates in
Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1866-7),[2] and collected plants from right around the world, including the Andes, north-western Himalayas, and New Zealand. He studied plant hybridisation in a time that was before the rediscovery of genetics,[3][4] and was a sometime correspondent of Charles Darwin
.
In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.[5]
In his final years he lived at Hay Lodge in Trinity, Edinburgh.[6]
References
- ^ "Darwin Correspondence Project – Name file 115 – Anderson-Henry, Isaac". Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "Darwin By Post exhibit at the Lloyd Library and Museum Isaac Anderson-Henry". Archived from the original on 2010-10-15.
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- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1882-83
