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John Horne (botanist)

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Name
  
John Horne

Role
  
Botanist

Died
  
1905


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John Horne FLS (1835–1905) was a Scottish botanist. He served as director of the Botanic Gardens of Pamplemousses, Mauritius.

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The Sapindaceae genus Hornea is named after Horne.

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Life

Horne was born in Lethendy, Perthshire, Scotland. He worked at Kew in 1859–1860 and at the Botanic Gardens Mauritius 1861–1891, serving as Director from 1877 onward.

He collected plants in Mauritius and the Seychelles.

On his transfer to Fiji, Arthur Gordon hand-picked a retinue of officials to accompany him, including Horne, who moved to Fiji a year after Gordon, in 1876.

Horne died in Jersey in the Channel Islands on 16 April 1905.

References

John Horne (botanist) Wikipedia