George Arnott Walker-Arnott

George Arnott Walker-Arnott
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George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799-1868) was a Scottish botanist.

He studied law in Edinburgh but became a botanist later. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in studies of Indian botany.

The standard author abbreviation Arn. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.

External links

Hooker, Sir William Jackson; G. A. Walker-Arnott, Esq. (1841). The Botany of Captain Beechey's voyage. Henry George Bohn.

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