Nicholas Edward Brown | |
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| Born | (1849-07-11)11 July 1849 |
| Died | 25 November 1934(1934-11-25) (aged 85) Kew Gardens,London, England |
| Nationality | British |
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| Fields | Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | N.E.Br. |
Nicholas Edward Brown (11 July 1849 inRedhill, Surrey – 25 November 1934 inKew Gardens,London) was an English planttaxonomist and authority onsucculents. He was also an authority on several families of plants, includingAsclepiadaceae,Aizoaceae,Labiatae and Cape plants.
He started work as an assistant in the Herbarium atKew in 1873, and was promoted to the position of Assistant Keeper in 1909, which he kept until 1914. He produced many annotated drawings of succulent plants in his work revising the genusMesembryanthemum, which were published in 1931.[1] He was the author of several works on the taxonomy of plants, particularlysucculents. TheAraceae genusNebrownia was named in his honour byOtto Kuntze. A number of plants bear the specific name "nebrownii" - such asAcacia nebrownii,Gibbaeum nebrownii,Caralluma nebrownii andLithops olivacea v nebrownii, as does a waterhole in theEtosha National Park.[2] The plantAnthurium brownii and the genusBrownanthus (now a synonym ofMesembryanthemum) also bear his name.
He was awarded theCaptain Scott Memorial Medal by theSouth African Biological Society in recognition of his work on SA flora, and in 1932 anhonorary D.Sc. was conferred on him by theUniversity of the Witwatersrand. His publications appeared mainly in theKew Bull. and inFlora Capensis. He married the daughter ofThomas Cooper (1815–1913), another Kew botanist.
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