William Jameson
1796–1873
Scottish botanist. Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Emigrated to South America in 1820. Practised medicine in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1822–6. Professor of chemistry, University of Quito, 1827–35, 1846–58; professor of botany, 1827–35, 1846–60. Appointed assayer of the Mint in Quito, Ecuador, 1832; director, 1861. Prepared a synopsis of the flora of Ecuador.
Sources
ODNB
Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 12: 19–28.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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