John Drew Salmon

John Drew Salmon (4 September 1802 – 1859) was an English ornithologist and botanist.

Life Born on 4 September 1802, Salmon lived from 1825 to 1833 at Stoke Ferry and from 1833 to 1837 at Thetford, Norfolk, then moving to Godalming, Surrey. He later was manager of the Wenham Lake Ice Company, and lived over their office in the Strand, London.

Salmon visited the Netherlands in 1825, the Isle of Wight in 1829, and Orkney in 1831. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1852. He died at Stoke Ferry, on 5 August 1859, aged 57. He had begun in 1828 to form a collection of eggs, part of which he left to the Linnean Society. The remaining portion, with his herbarium and natural history diaries from 1825 to 1837 he left to the Norwich Museum. His six fascicles of plant specimens and hand written manuscript from his flora of the neighbourhood of Godalming are in the Charterhouse School Herbarium maintained at the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.