Robert Graham (botanist)

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Robert Graham FRSE FRCPE MWS (3 December 1786, Stirling – 7 August 1845, Coldoch, by Blairdrummond, Perthshire) was a Scottish physician and botanist. He was the inaugural chair of botany at the University of Edinburgh. He was also physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Regius Keeper (1820–1845) of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

He wrote descriptions of new and rare plants cultivated in the gardens which were published in Edinburgh New Philosophical Magazine, Curtis's Botanical Magazine and Hooker's Companion to the Botanical Magazine.

Among plants he described was the Australian shrub Lasiopetalum macrophyllum.^[1]

The standard author abbreviation Graham is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

References

↑ "Lasiopetalum macrophyllum Graham". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
↑ "Author Query for 'Graham'". International Plant Names Index.

Robert Graham Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1851
1670 and all that: a brief chronology Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

External links

"Graham, Robert (1786-1845)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Check date values in: |date= (help)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 77077499 LCCN: n2006180746 GND: 116820055

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Name	Graham, Robert
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Short description	Scottish botanist
Date of birth	3 December 1786
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Date of death	7 August 1845
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