About John Horne
Lived 1835 – 1905 (aged 69–70). John Horne was a British botanist.
John Horne FLS (1835–1905) was a Scottish botanist. He served as director of the Botanic Gardens of Pamplemousses, Mauritius.
The Sapindaceae genus Hornea is named after Horne.
Life Horne was born in Lethendy, Perthshire, Scotland. He worked at Kew in 1859–1860 and at the Botanic Gardens in Mauritius 1861–1891, serving as Director from 1877 onward.
He collected plants in Mauritius and the Seychelles.
Upon his transfer to Fiji, Arthur Gordon hand-picked a retinue of officials to accompany him, including Horne, who moved to Fiji a year after Gordon, in 1876.
Horne died in Jersey in the Channel Islands on 16 April 1905.
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Scottish botanist (1835-1905)
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John Horne was born in 1835 in Perthshire.
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John Horne died on 16 April 1905 in Jersey.
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John Horne was a botanist.
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John Horne was British.
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