Benjamin Daydon Jackson
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Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1846-1927) was a pioneering botanist and taxonomer who wrote the first volume of Index Kewensis
to include all the flowering plants.
and educated at private schools. He is perhaps best known as the compiler of Index Kewensis, a reference book which appeared from 1893 to 1895, and which was at once accepted as authority throughout the world for names of flowering plants. In 1880 he was elected president of the Linnaean Society.
Index Kewensis
The Index Kewensis , maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is a publication that aims to register all botanical names for seed plants at the rank of species and genera...
to include all the flowering plants.
Biography
Jackson, is the eldest child of Benjamin Daydon Jackson (c.1806-1855) and Elizabeth Gaze (b.c.1815). He was born in LondonLondon
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and educated at private schools. He is perhaps best known as the compiler of Index Kewensis, a reference book which appeared from 1893 to 1895, and which was at once accepted as authority throughout the world for names of flowering plants. In 1880 he was elected president of the Linnaean Society.
Works
Besides the Index Kewensis, he wrote:- Guide to the Literature of Botany (1881)
- Vegetable Technology (1882)
- Glossary of Botanical Terms (1900)