George Don
George Don (29 April 1798 – 25 February 1856) was a Scottish botanist.
George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1798. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802 and his mother was Caroline Clementina Stuart. George was the elder brother of David Don, also a botanist. The younger George Don became foreman of the gardens at Chelsea in 1816. In 1821 he was sent to Brazil, the West Indies and Sierra Leone to collect specimens for the Royal Horticultural Society. Most of his discoveries were published by Joseph Sabine, although Don published several new species from Sierra Leone.
Don's main work was his four volume A General System of Gardening and Botany, published between 1832 and 1838 (often referred to as Gen. Hist., an abbreviation of the alternative title: A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants). He revised the first supplement to Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants, and provided a Linnean arrangement to Loudon's Hortus Britannicus. He also wrote a monograph on the genus Allium and a review of Combretum. He died at Kensington, London, on 25 February 1856.
The plant species authored by George Don include:
See also List of Australian plant species authored by George Don.
References
- Hall, Norman (1978). Botanists of the Eucalypts. CSIRO, Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-00271-5.
Bibliography
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| Linnaean system (1735–51) | |
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| Adanson system (1763) | Familles naturelles des plantes |
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| De Jussieu system (1789) | Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam |
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| De Candolle system (1819–24) |
- Théorie élémentaire de la botanique, ou exposition des principes de la classification naturelle et de l'art de décrire et d'etudier les végétaux
- Prodromus systemati naturalis regni vegetabilis sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta
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| Gray system (1821) | The Natural Arrangement of British Plants |
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| Lindley system (1830–45) |
- An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany
- The Vegetable Kingdom
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| Don system (1834) | General History of Dichlamydious Plants. |
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| Bentham & Hooker system (1862–83) | Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. |
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| Baillon system (1867–94) | Histoire des plantes |
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| Eichler system (1883) | Syllabus der Vorlesungen über Phanerogamenkunde |
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| Engler system (1887–1924) |
- Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien
- Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien
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| Dalla Torre & Harms system (1900–07) | Genera Siphonogamarum, ad systema Englerianum conscripta |
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| Bessey system (1915) | The phylogenetic taxonomy of flowering plants |
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| Wettstein system (1901–35) | Handbuch der systematischen Botanik |
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| Lotsy system (1907–11) | Vorträge über botanische Stammesgeschichte, gehalten an der Reichsuniversität zu Leiden. Ein Lehrbuch der Pflanzensystematik. |
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| Hutchinson system (1926–73) | The families of flowering plants, arranged according to a new system based on their probable phylogeny |
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| Melchior system (1964) | Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien |
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| Takhtajan system (1966–97) |
- A system and phylogeny of the flowering plants
- Flowering plants: origin and dispersal
- Diversity and classification of flowering plants
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| Cronquist system (1968–81) |
- The evolution and classification of flowering plants
- An integrated system of classification of flowering plants
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| Goldberg system (1986–89 | Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons |
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| Dahlgren system (1975–85) | The families of the monocotyledons: structure, evolution, and taxonomy |
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| Thorne system (1968–2000) | An updated phylogenetic classification of the flowering plants |
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| Kubitzki system (1990–) | The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants |
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| Reveal system (1999) | Reveal System of Angiosperm Classification |
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| Angiosperm Phylogeny Group System (1998–2009) | |
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