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Gamble, James Sykes (1847-1925)

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)
James Sykes
Last name
Gamble
Initials
J.S.
Life Dates
1847 - 1925
Collecting Dates
1885 - 1896
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Fungi Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), B, CAL, DBN, DD, G, H, L, OXF, P, US
Countries
Europe: Ireland, United KingdomIndian region: India
Associate(s)
King, George (1840-1909) (co-author)
Biography
British forester from London who joined the Indian Forest Department (1871-1879), where he had a distinguished career and was promoted to Conservator of Forests, and subsequently appointed Director of the Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun (1890-1899). He published on timber trees and their uses, particularly in road-building, roofing and bridge construction and he was Editor for Indian Forester (1878-1882, 1891-1899). Gamble also published more general botanical works including initiating a flora of the former Presidency of Madras. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (1899). The genus Gamblea C.B. Clarke was named in his honour. His herbarium of some 50,000 specimens was donated to K (1925). Material at BM is mainly Indian, collected 1885-1887, but includes some original British material and cryptogams transferred in part from K under the terms of the Morton Agreement after 1961.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 217; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 25; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 145; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 215; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 150;

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)
James Sykes
Last name
Gamble
Initials
J.S.
Life Dates
1847 - 1925
Collecting Dates
1885 - 1896
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Fungi Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), B, CAL, DBN, DD, G, H, L, OXF, P, US
Countries
Europe: Ireland, United KingdomIndian region: India
Associate(s)
King, George (1840-1909) (co-author)
Biography
British forester from London who joined the Indian Forest Department (1871-1879), where he had a distinguished career and was promoted to Conservator of Forests, and subsequently appointed Director of the Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun (1890-1899). He published on timber trees and their uses, particularly in road-building, roofing and bridge construction and he was Editor for Indian Forester (1878-1882, 1891-1899). Gamble also published more general botanical works including initiating a flora of the former Presidency of Madras. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (1899). The genus Gamblea C.B. Clarke was named in his honour. His herbarium of some 50,000 specimens was donated to K (1925). Material at BM is mainly Indian, collected 1885-1887, but includes some original British material and cryptogams transferred in part from K under the terms of the Morton Agreement after 1961.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 217; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 25; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 145; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 215; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 150;
Gamble, James Sykes (1847-1925)
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