Biography

A surgeon in the East India Company, John Livingstone was a keen horticulturalist and collected plants in China. He first visited in the country in 1793 and went there again ten years later, residing from then on in Macao.

In 1817 Livingstone was elected a Corresponding Member of the Horticultural Society of London. He thereafter contributed articles on Chinese horticulture to the Society's Transactions and sent material (mainly living) to London. Some of the material he collected was entrusted to Dr. Clarke Abel of Lord Amherst's embassy mission; this was lost in a shipwreck.

Sources:
E. Bretschneider, 1898, History of European Botanical Discoveries In China: 266-268
E.H.M.Cox, 1945, Plant Hunting in China: 52.

Biography

A surgeon in the East India Company, John Livingstone was a keen horticulturalist and collected plants in China. He first visited in the country in 1793 and went there again ten years later, residing from then on in Macao.

In 1817 Livingstone was elected a Corresponding Member of the Horticultural Society of London. He thereafter contributed articles on Chinese horticulture to the Society's Transactions and sent material (mainly living) to London. Some of the material he collected was entrusted to Dr. Clarke Abel of Lord Amherst's embassy mission; this was lost in a shipwreck.

Sources:
E. Bretschneider, 1898, History of European Botanical Discoveries In China: 266-268
E.H.M.Cox, 1945, Plant Hunting in China: 52.