About Nicol Alexander Dalzell
Lived 1817 – 1878 (aged 60–61). Nicol Alexander Dalzell was a British botanist.
Nicol (or Nicholas) Alexander Dalzell FRSE FLS (21 April 1817 – 18 December 1877) was a Scottish botanist. He was one of the first people to form the link between forest denudation and the impact of rainfall upon the wider countryside.
Life
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, his early education was at the High School in Edinburgh.
Dalzell studied divinity (rather than botany) at university, under Rev Thomas Chalmers, and received an M.A. at the University of Edinburgh in 1837. He lost his savings in the collapse of the Bank of Hindostan, China, and Japan.
Legacy A number of plant species are named for him, such as the grass, Ischaemum dalzelli.
Also a genus of flowering plants, Dalzellia from China, was also named after him, in 1852.
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Who was Nicol Alexander Dalzell?
Scottish botanist (1817-1878)
When was Nicol Alexander Dalzell born?
Nicol Alexander Dalzell was born on 21 April 1817 in Edinburgh.
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Nicol Alexander Dalzell died in 1878 in Edinburgh, botanical collector.
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Nicol Alexander Dalzell was a botanist.
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Nicol Alexander Dalzell was British.
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