Daniel Morris (botanist) explained
| Daniel Morris |
| Birth Date: | 26 May 1844 |
| Birth Place: | Loughor, Swansea, Wales |
| Death Place: | Boscombe |
| Nationality: | British |
| Fields: | Botany |
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| Author Abbrev Bot: | D.Morris |
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Sir Daniel Morris [1] (1844–1933) was a British administrator, horticulturist and botanist, who worked mainly in the Caribbean region. He was knighted in 1903.[2] [3]
Biography
After public school at Cheltenham, he was educated at the Royal College of Science South Kensington and at Trinity College Dublin, where he took first class honours in natural science. From 1877 to 1879 he was Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon, where he studied coffee leaf rust.[4] He married in 1879. From 1879 to 1886 he was Director of the Botanic Department in Jamaica; he collected botanical specimens in British Honduras in 1882. From 1886 to 1898 he was Assistant Director (under William Thiselton-Dyer)[3] of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. From 1898 to 1908 Morris was Imperial Commissioner, West Indian Agricultural Department. From 1908 to 1913 he was Scientific Advisor in Tropical Agriculture to the Colonial Office.[5] [6]
Selected publications
- Book: A catalogue of the most interesting forest trees, ornamental trees & shrubs, fruit trees, foliage plants, &c., &c., suitable for distribution. Colombo. W.H. Herbert, government printer. 1879.
- Book: Notes on Liberian Coffee, Its History and Cultivation. 1881. Kingston, Jamaica. Government Printing Office.
- Book: Cacao: How to Grow and How to Cure It. 1882. Kingston, Jamaica. Government Publishing Office.
- Book: The Mungoose on Sugar Estates in the West Indies. 1882.
- Book: The Colony of British Honduras. London. Edward Stanford. 1883.
- Book: Fruit as a Factor in Colonial Commerce. 1887.
- Book: The Vegetable Resources of the West Indies. 1888.
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Desmond, Ray. Morris, Daniel. Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Agriculturalists. 1994. 500–501. 9780850668438. https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA500.
- Morris, Sir Daniel. International Who's Who. 1912. 790.
- Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G.. Nature. 131. 3304. 266. 25 February 1933. 10.1038/131266a0. free.
- Book: Uekötter, Frank. Coffee leaf rust. Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation. 2014. 99. 9783593500287. https://books.google.com/books?id=6JUCBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA99.
- http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY307G Janus: Sir Daniel Morris Collection: West Indian views
- Morris, Sir Daniel. Who's Who. 1912. 1524.
