Botanical Collector

This page lists 3,225 biographies of botanical collectors, covering lives from 1630 to 2000. Featuring Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle and Barbara York Main. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

May A. Moir

1907 – 2001

Alfred Venning

1846 – 1927

Mary Long Alderson

1860 – 1940

Mary Ellen Cusack

1833 – 1900

William Blackall

1876 – 1941

George Richard Vasey

1853 – 1921

Margaret Dorothea Sherbourne

1791 – 1846

Lloyd Esler

b. 1957

Eliza Grey

1823 – 1898

Mary Rogers Miller

1868 – 1971

Jean Kingdon-Ward

1921 – 2011

Flora Nancy Vasey

1861 – 1917

Robert Kestell-Cornish

1824 – 1909

Amparo de Zeledón

1870 – 1951

Elizabeth Joan Gibbons

1902 – 1988

Amelia Bunbury

1863 – 1956

Janet Louise Cosh

1901 – 1989

Mabel Bent

1847 – 1929

Octavius William Borrell

1916 – 2007

Roger Shakespear

Julia Wells

1842 – 1911

Constance Georgina Tardrew

1883 – 1968

Abigail Kimber

1804 – 1871

Leonard Clarke Webster

1870 – 1942

John Linnell

1822 – 1906

William Robert Sherrin

1871 – 1955

Frederick Adamson

1816 – 1860

Helen Margaret Druce

1921 – 2010

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

1876 – 1956

Anna Mary Winifred Brotherton

1874 – 1956

Beatrice Behan

1925 – 1993

George Maxwell

1804 – 1880

Louisa Isabella Chaulk Baudinet

1825 – 1901

Mary Ann McHard

1825 – 1912

Clara Christine Maria Wehl

1833 – 1901

Daniel Bolton

1793 – 1860

Selina Catherine Stow

1870 – 1956

Harriette Merrifield Forbes

1856 – 1951

Una Leonora Weatherby

1878 – 1957

Carl Wilhelmi

1829 – 1884

Agnes Adelaide Donaldson

1866 – 1948

Joseph Whipple Congdon

1834 – 1910

Florence Mary Paterson

1869 – 1936

Jeanne Borle

1880 – 1979

Samuel Stead

b. 1828

Sir Edmund Giles Loder, 2nd Baronet

1849 – 1920

Nona Maria Stevenson Bellairs

1824 – 1897

Ernst Hallier

1831 – 1904

Emmeline Moore

1877 – 1968

Conrad Vernon Morton

1905 – 1972

Maria Elizabeth Fernald

1839 – 1919

Elizabeth Sarah Kite

1864 – 1954

Geneva Sayre

1911 – 1992

Edith May Farr

1864 – 1956

William Lauder Lindsay

1829 – 1880

Georg Volkens

1855 – 1917

Karl Suessenguth

1893 – 1955

Mary Letitia Green

1886 – 1978

Kate Coolahan

1929 – 2025

Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy

1792 – 1838

José Antonio Molina Rositto

1926 – 2012

Ferdinand Joseph L'Herminier

1802 – 1866

Andreas Reischek

1845 – 1902

Philipp Franz von Siebold

1796 – 1866

Henry William Gourlay

1895 – 1970

Armando Theodoro Hunziker

1919 – 2001

William Vincent Fitzgerald

1867 – 1929

Harold Frederick Comber

1897 – 1969

Sigfrid Vilhelm Arnell

1895 – 1970

Thorvald Sørensen

1902 – 1973

Hewett Watson

1804 – 1881

Helen Vandervort Smith

1909 – 1995

Paul Fryxell

1927 – 2011

Barthélémy Du Mortier

1797 – 1878

Jane Colden

1724 – 1766

Alexander Floyd

1926 – 2022

Heinrich August Jäschke

1817 – 1883

Barbara Mitcalfe

1928 – 2017

John Jacob Lavranos

1926 – 2018

Karel Kavina

1890 – 1948

Hanna Czeczott

1888 – 1982

Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz

1834 – 1878

Alberto Judice Leote Cavaco

1915 – 2001

Josef Brunnthaler

1871 – 1914

William MacGregor

1846 – 1919

Thomas Ford Chipp

1886 – 1931

John Terborgh

b. 1936

Frank Walton Gould

1913 – 1981

Renaud Paulian

1913 – 2003

Brian Grieve

1907 – 1997

Charles Flahault

1852 – 1935

Josef Sartori

1809 – 1885

Josef Poelt

1924 – 1995

Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger

1876 – 1953

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

1656 – 1708

Cornelius Herman Muller

1909 – 1997

Alexander Becker

1818 – 1901

William Hillhouse

1850 – 1910

Horacio Quiroga

1878 – 1937

Hiroshige Koyama

1937 – 2016