> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 49](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33260037) of TL-2 Suppl. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2268-1) LSID 2268-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1381245) QID Q1381245 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Don, George (1798-1856)|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Don, George (1798-1856), British plant collector and nurseryman, brother of David Don, born 17 Mai 1798 at Doo Hillock, Forfarshire, Scotland, died 25 Feb 1856 at Kensington, 1814-1815 with his brother David in a market garden, 1816 to Chelsea with the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, collected in tropical America 1821-1823, with the Linnean Society 1828-1837, worked in gardening until 1856. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Don* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Don*\] #### Herbarium and types See TL-2/1: 669: cryptogams at [[Collection PH|PH]]; Bryophyte herbarium at [[Collection DBN|DBN]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 789, 5(1): 804, 6(1): 344; Backer p. 183; Barnhart 1: 463 (b. 17 Mai 1798, Doo Hillock, Forfarshire, d. 25 Feb 1856, Kensington); BB p. 50, 93; BM 1: 472, 6: 275; CSP 2: 314; Desmond p. 190; DNB 15: 206; Frank 3(Anh.): 25; Hortus 3: 1192; IH 2: 165; Jackson p. 540; Kew 2: 209; Langman p. 249-250; Lasègue p. 329, 376, 502; MW p. 99; PR 2366, ed. 1: 2676; SK 1(4): ciii; TL-1: 110-111; TL-2/1: 669-670, see also 5026, 5027, 9721; Zander ed. 10, p. 653, ed. 11, p. 743. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 14(24): 432. 13 Jun 1856 (d. 25 Feb 1856); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1856: xxxix-xl; Flora 39: 288, 414. 1856; Bonplandia 4(7): 123. 1856, 5(9): 133-134. 1857; J. Bot. 44: 60-63. 1906; Bot. Journ. 1(1): 16-19. 1910. - Baillon, H.E., Dict. Bot. 2: 465. 1884. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 408. 1880. - Conde, J.-A., Historia Bot. Cuba 72. 1958 (D. on Cuba and Jamaica). - Druce, G.C., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 12: 53-208. 1904 (life and work of Don), address on the unveiling of the monument for George Don at Forfar 8 Sep 1910, *Copy*: NY. 8 p. by James Parker and Co., Oxford. - Exell, A.W., Cat. Vasc. Pl. S. Tomé 1944, p. 8 (coll. on Tomé). - Fletcher, H.R., Story roy. Hort. Soc. 1804-1968: 81, 95-96. 1969. - Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts 47-48. 1978. - Hedge, I.C. and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 75. 1970. - Hepper, F.N. and F. Neate, Plant Coll. W. Afr. 26. 1971. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herbaria 51. 1957. - Lemmon, K., Golden age plant hunters 122-149. 1968. - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter botanicus 478 (index) 1985. - Marticorena, C., Bibl. bot. taxonom. de Chile, Monogr. syst. bot. Missouri bot. gard. 41: 230-231. 1992. - Masters, M.T., Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 32: 151-152. 1902. - Mears, J.A., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 133: 149. 1981. - Murray, G., Hist. Coll. BMNH 1: 144 (701 species from W. trop. Africa, many types of Hooker's *Niger Flora*, purchased 1856). - Schneider, C.K., Geschichte der Botanik 616. 1906. - Schultes, J.A., Flora 8(1), Beil. 1: 23, 24, 27, 31, 35. 1825. - Spaulding, P., Pop. sci. Mo. 74: 48. 1909. - Stearn, W.T., Grisebach's Flora of the British N. Indian Islands, J. Arnold Arboretum 46: 266. 1965. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3: 38. 1902; Fl. bras. 1(1): 16-17. 1906. - Vallot, J., Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 177-178. 1882. - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. Herb. Gotting. 43. 1982. - White, A. and B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2: 508, etc. 1937. #### Composite works - (1) *Sweet's Hortus Britannicus*, ed. 3., 1839 edited by G. Don. – See R. Sweet. - (2) W.J. Hooker, Niger Flora 1949, *Flora Nigritana* 1849. – See also BM 1: 472. - (3) *Loudon's Encyclopaedia* of *plants*... edited by Mrs. Loudon, assisted by G. Don. – See J.C. Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of plants, etc. 1872. - (4) Wallich's Catalogue and G. Don's *General System* fide T.A.S., Kew Bull. 1925(3): 159. 17 Apr 1925. ### Publications ##### n.31.274. monograph **Title** A *monograph* of the genus *Allium*... From the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural history society... \[1827\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Mai 1827, p. \[1\]-102. *Copies*: G, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Mem. Wern. nat. hist. Soc. 6: 1-102. 1827. *Ref*.: Stearn, W.T., J. Bot. 74: 322-323. Nov 1936 (detailed info.). - *Note*: Amended text for TL-2/1: no. 1499.