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Jameson, William (Guilielmo) (1796-1873)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
William (Guilielmo)
Last name
Jameson
Initials
W.(G.)
Life Dates
1796 - 1873
Collecting Dates
1819 - 1859
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
ABD, ABDAM, B, BH, BM, C, CGE, DD, E, F, FI, G, GH, H, K, KW, L, LA, LE, LIV, MA, MANCH, MEDEL, MICH, MO, NY, OXF, P, PH, Q, S, SI, TCD, UPS, US, W
Countries
Tropical South America: Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, EcuadorTemperate South America: ArgentinaBrazilian region: BrazilEurope: Greenland, United Kingdom
Associate(s)
Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné (1802-1887) (co-collector)
Hall, Francis (-1834) (co-collector)
Scott, James Robinson (1789-1821) (co-collector)
Biography
Scottish physician and botanist who was professor of chemistry and botany at the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador (1826-1873). His first set is mainly at K but more than 3,000 specimens are known to exist at BM, including material of phanerogams and possibly original cryptogams, mainly purchased between 1846 and 1869 from his collections made in Colombia and Ecuador. Material of the exsiccatae set Herbarium Edinense, dated 1819, is also present.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 301; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 175; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 35; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 176; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 250; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 105, 157; Renner, S. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 82 (1993): 18; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 421; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 864;

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
William (Guilielmo)
Last name
Jameson
Initials
W.(G.)
Life Dates
1796 - 1873
Collecting Dates
1819 - 1859
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
ABD, ABDAM, B, BH, BM, C, CGE, DD, E, F, FI, G, GH, H, K, KW, L, LA, LE, LIV, MA, MANCH, MEDEL, MICH, MO, NY, OXF, P, PH, Q, S, SI, TCD, UPS, US, W
Countries
Tropical South America: Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, EcuadorTemperate South America: ArgentinaBrazilian region: BrazilEurope: Greenland, United Kingdom
Associate(s)
Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné (1802-1887) (co-collector)
Hall, Francis (-1834) (co-collector)
Scott, James Robinson (1789-1821) (co-collector)
Biography
Scottish physician and botanist who was professor of chemistry and botany at the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador (1826-1873). His first set is mainly at K but more than 3,000 specimens are known to exist at BM, including material of phanerogams and possibly original cryptogams, mainly purchased between 1846 and 1869 from his collections made in Colombia and Ecuador. Material of the exsiccatae set Herbarium Edinense, dated 1819, is also present.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 301; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 175; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 35; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 176; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 250; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 105, 157; Renner, S. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 82 (1993): 18; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 421; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 864;
Jameson, William (Guilielmo) (1796-1873)
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