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William Fawcett (botanist)

William Fawcett (botanist)

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William Fawcett (1851–1926) was a British botanist and coauthor of the Flora of Jamaica.

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He was born in Arklow, County Wicklow, on 13 February 1851. He studied at the University of London, obtaining a BSc in 1879. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1881 and was an assistant in the Department of Botany in the British Museum from 1880-1886.[1]

Fawcett was Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908. He then returned to Britain where he worked with Alfred Barton Rendle to produce the first few volumes of the Flora of Jamaica,[2] (illustrated by Beatrice O. Corfe and Helen Adelaide Wood).[3]

He died at Blackheath, London on 14 August 1926.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Fawc. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. pp. 242–243. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8.
  2. [2]
    Arditti, Joseph (1996). "Book Review: Orchids of Jamaica. Ancile Gloudon and Cicely Tobisch (1995)". Plant Science Bulletin. 42 (1): 19–20.
  3. [3]
    BHL: Metadata for Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island.. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  4. [4]
    International Plant Names Index.  Fawc.
  • Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London 1910. at BHL
  • The banana, its cultivation, distribution and commercial uses, by William Fawcett. London, Duckworth 1921. at BHL
  • Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, by William Fawcett. Kingston, Botanical Dept., Vol.1 , Vol.2 , Vol.3 , Vol.4 , Vol.5 & 6
  • Economic plants. An index to economic products of the vegetable kingdom in Jamaica by William Fawcett. Jamaica, Govt. Print. Establishment 1891. at BHL
  • A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalised flowering plants of Jamaica ,by William Fawcett. Kingston 1893. at Nybg


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