About William Freeman Daniell
Lived 1818 – 1865 (aged 46–47). William Freeman Daniell was a British botanist and physician.
William Freeman Daniell (1818–1865) was a British army surgeon and botanist. From 1847 to 1856 he was stationed in Gambia, the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) and Sierra Leone, where he studied tropical diseases and botany.
He corresponded with William Jackson Hooker and Charles Darwin
The genus Daniellia of legumes was named after him by John Joseph Bennett.
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British army surgeon and botanist (1818-1865)
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William Freeman Daniell was born in 1818 in Bristol.
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William Freeman Daniell died in 1865 in Southampton.
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William Freeman Daniell was a botanist and physician.
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William Freeman Daniell was British.
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