Gilbert Thomas Burnett Explained
Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist.
Life
Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany (1835), and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and illustrated by his sister Mary Ann Burnett.[1]
Burnett also wrote articles on zoology, such as Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies (1828).[2]
Publications
- An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants
Book: An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants Consisting of Beautiful and Accurate Coloured Figures of Plants Used in the Arts, In Medicine, and For Ornament, with Copious Scientific and Popular Descriptions of Each, Accounts of Their Uses, and Mode of Culture, and Numerous Interesting Anecdotes. In Two Volumes. II. 1852. George Willis, Great Piazza, Covent Garden. London. EUOP. References
Notes and References
- News: Births Marriages Deaths. 27 December 1856. The Spectator Archive. 20 November 2017. The Spectator.
- Burnett . G. T. . 1828 . Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies: being the arrangement of the Quadrumana or anthropomorphous beasts indicated in the outline . QJ Sci. Lit. Art. . 26 . 300-307.
