David Don
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Scottish botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Don was a Scottish botanist. Biography David Don was born on 21 December 1799 at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland to Caroline Clementina Stuart, and her husband George Don of Forfar. His older brother was George Don, also a botanist. His father was a curator at the Royal Botanic Garden, Leith Walk, Edinburgh. Don was Professor of Botany at King's College London from 1836 to 1841, and librarian at the Linnean Society of London from 1822 to 1841.
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- A description of the genus Pinus (20)
- XIX. A Monograph of the Genus Saxifraga. (1822) (9)
- XIV. On the Origin and Nature of the Ligulate Rays in Zinnia; and on a remarkable Multiplication observed in the Parts of Fructification of that Genus. (1830) (6)
- XXXIV. A Monograph of Streptopus, with the Description of a new Genus now first separated from it. (1841) (3)
- A description of the genus Pinus :illustrated with figures, directions relative to the cultivation, and remarks on the uses of the several species /by Aylmer Bourke Lambert. (3)
- XXIX. Descriptions of Indian Gentianeæ. (1837) (3)
- XLVI.—A List of Plants Collected by Charles Fellows, Esq., During his Tour in Lycia and Caria; with Descriptions of the New Species (1841) (2)
- Additional Observations on the TropÆolum pentaphyllum of Lamarck. (1834) (2)
- III. Observations on the Tropæolum pentaphyllum of Lamarck. (1834) (2)
- VIII. Descriptions of two new Genera of the Natural Family of Plants called Coniferæ. (1839) (1)
- XVI. Descriptions of Nine new Species of the Genus Carex, Natives of the Himalaya Alps in Upper Nepal. (1824) (1)
- XXIII. Remarks on some British Ferns. (1836) (1)
- XXIV. Descriptions of Five new Species of the Genus Pinus, discovered by Dr. Coulter in California. (1836) (1)
- XXVIII. Description of Cowania, a new Genus of Plants; and of a new Species of Sieversia. (1825) (1)
- XII. Description of a new Genus belonging to the Natural Family of Plants called Scrophularinæ. (1827) (1)
- XXXIII. A Monograph of the Genus Disporum. (1841) (1)
- XXXIII. On the Plant which yields the Gum Ammoniacum. (1833) (1)
- ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE TISSUES OP CYCADEÆ (0)
- XIX. An Account of the Indian Species of Juncus and Luzula. (1840) (0)
- XVIII. Descriptions of the Indian Species of Iris. (1840) (0)
- IX. On the Modifications of Æstivation observable in certain Plants, formerly referred to the Genus Cinchona. (1834) (0)
- XVII. Description of a new Genus of Plants belonging to the Natural Family Bignoniaceæ. (1840) (0)
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