Baron, Richard (1847-1907)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Richard
Last name
Baron
Initials
R.
Life Dates
1847 - 1907
Collecting Dates
1880 - 1900
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
K (main), B, BIRM, BM, E, FI, FT, G, H, H-BR, MO, NY, P, TAN, US, W, WAG
Countries
Madagascan region: Madagascar
Associate(s)
Baker, John Gilbert (1834-1920) (specimens to)
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892) (correspondent)
Capuron, René Paul Raymond (1921-1971) (co-collector)
Geikie, A. (1835-1924) (correspondent)
Mouneyres, L. (fl. 1903) (co-collector)
Perrier de la Bâthie, Joseph Marie Henry Alfred (1873-1958) (co-collector)
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1822-1913) (correspondent)
Biography
British missionary and naturalist from Kendal, Westmorland who studied theology at the Independent University of Lancashire and the North Congregational University. He travelled to Madagascar with the London Missionary Society and was briefly principal of the Theological College at Tananarive. A keen botanist and geologist, he collected some 12,000 specimens which he sent to K, including a great many new species. The genera Baronia Baker in the Anacardiaceae, Baroniella Costantin & Gaullaud in the Asclepiadaceae and Neobaronia Baker in the Fabaceae were named in his honour.
References
Desmond, R., Dict. Brit. Irish Bot. Hortic., ed. 2 (1994): 47; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 28; Hedge, I.C. & Lamond, J.M., Index Coll. Edindb. Herb. (1970): 58; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 6; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 56; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 132;
Baron, Richard (1847-1907)
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