Andrew Thomas Gage

Andrew Thomas Gage (14 December 1871 – 21 January 1945) was a Scottish botanist and surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who worked at the Calcutta Botanical Garden.

Biography Gage was born on 14 December 1871 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Robert Gage.

Gage was admitted Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1908. He worked on the manuscript by Benjamin Daydon Jackson to produce a History of the Linnean Society of London (1938) which was further expanded upon by W.T. Stearn in 1988. He was married to Jean Sturt Bruce of Kildrummy.

Selected publications 1901: A Botanical Tour in the South Lushai Hills 1901: On the anatomy of the roots of Phoenix paludosa Roxb. 1903: A Census of the Indian Polygonums 1904: The Vegetation of the District of Minbu in Upper Burma 1912: Catalogue of Non-herbaceous Phanerogams Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta 1916: Letters to Nathaniel Wallich, 1819-1821 1918: Report on the extension of Cinchona cultivation in India 1922: Euphorbiaceae novae e Peninsula Malayana 1938: A History of the Linnean Society of London