Gilbert Thomas Burnett

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Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist.

Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany (1835), and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and illustrated by his sister M. A. Burnett.

Burnett also wrote articles on zoology, such as Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies (1828).

Publications

Outlines of Botany. 1835
Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts & Medicine
Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies. 1828

An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants: An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants Consisting of Beautiful and Accurate Coloured Figures of Plants Used in the Arts, In Medicine, and For Ornament, with Copious Scientific and Popular Descriptions of Each, Accounts of Their Uses, and Mode of Culture, and Numerous Interesting Anecdotes. In Two Volumes. Volume II. London: George Willis, Great Piazza, Covent Garden. 1852.

The standard author abbreviation Burnett is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

Burnett, Gilbert Thomas (1800-1835), surgeon and botanist by A. M. Lucas in Dictionary of National Biography

↑ "Author Query for 'Burnett'". International Plant Names Index.

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Name	Burnett, Gilbert
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Short description	British botanist
Date of birth	15 April 1800
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Date of death	27 July 1835
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