George Jackson (botanist)

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George Jackson (1780–1811) was an English botanist and author. He was born in Aberdeen in 1780 and was later in charge of A.B. Lambert's herbarium. On 2 February 1808 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society and made important contributions to the Henry Cranke Andrews publication The Botanist's Repository. He formally described the genus Ormosia, publishing the description in Transactions of the Linnean Society.^[1][2][3]

Jackson died on 12 January 1811 aged 31. In the same year Robert Brown named a genus of leguminous plants Jacksonia in his honour. James Edward Smith, in Rees's Cyclopædia noted -

• "Jacksonia, so named by Mr. Robert Brown, in memory of the late Mr. George Jackson, F.L.S., a man of the most excellent and amiable character, devoted to the science of botany."^[4][5][6]

References

1. "Ormosia". Tropicos. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
2. Jackson, George (1811). "Account of Ormosia, a new genus of decandrous plants belonging to thenatural order of Leguminosae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 10 (2): 358–364. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1810.tb00025.x. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
3. Britten, James (1916). "Bibliographical notes LXV - Henry Andrews and his "Botanists' Repository"". Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 54: 242–243. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
4. Rees, Abraham, ed. (1811). The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature (Volume 18). Vol. 18. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees Orme & Brown. pp. 530–531. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
5. Britten, James (1886). "George Jackson, F.L.S." Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 24: 137–139. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
6. Desmond, Ray, ed. (1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 377. ISBN 9780850668438.
7. International Plant Names Index.  Jacks.