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'''John Horne''' [[FLS]] (1835 – 1905) was the Director of the [[Botanic Gardens of Pamplemousses]], [[Mauritius]]. |
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Revision as of 22:13, 17 October 2011
John Horne FLS (1835 – 1905) was the Director of the Botanic Gardens of Pamplemousses, Mauritius.
Life
John Horne was born in Lethendy, Perthshire, Scotland in 1835.
He worked at Kew in 1859-1860 and at the Botanic Gardens Mauritius 1861-1891(Director from 1877).
He collected plants in Mauritius and the Seychelles.
In 1876, he spent a year collecting plants in Fiji.
He died in Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1905.
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