David Lyall
1817–95
Botanist. Assistant surgeon on HMS Terror in James Clark Ross’s Antarctic voyage, 1839–43. Surgeon and naturalist on HMS Acheron in New Zealand; on HMS Assistance in the Arctic, 1852. On British Columbia Boundary Commission, 1858–61. Collected plants in the Antarctic, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada. Friend of Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Source
R. Desmond 1994, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1894–5): 33–5.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
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