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Ernest David Marquand

1848 – 1918

English botanist

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Lived 1848 – 1918 (aged 70). Ernest David Marquand was a British botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.

Ernest David Marquand (1848–1918) was an English botanist, perhaps best known as the author of Flora of Guernsey. His son was the noted botanist Cecil Victor Boley Marquand.

Ernest Marquand was educated in New York, and worked mostly in herbaria, notably at the British Museum. He also collected in the Channel Islands and Germany, often with Herbert Airy Shaw.

Selective publications 1897. Additional Guernsey fungi. 7 pp. 1891. The cryptogamic flora of Kelvedon and its neighbourhood, together with a few coast species 1891. The flora of Guernsey. 23 pp. 1897. The fungi of Guernsey. 19 pp. 1901. Flora of Guernsey and the Lesser Channel Islands; Namely Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and the Adjacent Islets. with Five Maps. Ed. General Books. 388 pp. Republished 2009 1904. The spiders of Guernsey. 17 pp. 1905. The Guernsey dialect and its plant names. 17 pp. 1908. The Guernsey dialect names of birds, fishes, insects, &c. 20 pp.

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English botanist (1848-1918)

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Ernest David Marquand was born on 8 February 1848 in Guernsey.

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Ernest David Marquand died on 16 February 1918 in Totnes.

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Ernest David Marquand was a botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.

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Ernest David Marquand was British.

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