George Don
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Scottish botanist (1798-1856)
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Within Vinony's link graph, George Don is referenced by 348 other articles, and connects out to APG III system, London and Sierra Leone.
It sits within the topics 1798 births, 1856 deaths and 19th-century gardeners.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1798
- Died
- 1856
- Works
- 10
Top works
- A review of the genus Combretum
- Loudon's encyclopaedia of plants
- Account of the native plants in the county of Forfar
- A catalogue of a few of the rarest and latest introduced plants, cultivated for sale at Don's Botanic Garden and Nursery, Forfar
- A general history of the dichlamydeous plants, comprising complete descriptions of the different orders : together with the characters of the genera and species, and an enumeration of the cultivated varieties ... the scientific names accentuated, their etymologies explained, and the classes and orders illustrated by engravings, and preceded by introductions to the Linnaean and natural systems, and a glossary of the terms used
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 27
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Forfar
- Place of death
- Kensington
- Sibling
- David Don
- Occupation
- botanical collector
- Field of work
- botany
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- date of birth
- 1798-04-29
- date of death
- 1856-02-25
- P6944
- George Don
- has works in the collection
- Meise Botanic Garden
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Categories
1798 births1856 deaths19th-century gardeners19th-century Scottish artisans19th-century Scottish botanists19th-century Scottish male writers19th-century Scottish writersBotanical collectors active in AustraliaBotanists with author abbreviationsFellows of the Linnean Society of LondonPeople from Angus, ScotlandScottish encyclopedistsScottish gardenersScottish garden writersScottish horticulturistsScottish plant collectorsScottish taxonomists