Gilbert Thomas Burnett

Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist. Life Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany (1835), and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and illustrated by his sister Mary Ann Burnett.

Burnett also wrote articles on zoology, such as Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies (1828).

Publications Outlines of Botany. 1835 Plantæ utiliores : or Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts & Medicine Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies. 1828

An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants