Benjamin Daydon Jackson (3 April 1846 – 12 October 1927) was a pioneering botanist and taxonomer who wrote the first volume of ''

Index Kewensis The 1893 ''Index Kewensis'' (IK), 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. It later came to include names of taxonomic families and ...

'' to include all the flowering plants.

Biography

Jackson was the eldest child of Benjamin Daydon Jackson (''c.''1806-1855) and Elizabeth Gaze (b.''c.''1815), born in

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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 secretary of the

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Works

Besides the ''Index Kewensis'', he wrote: * ''Guide to the Literature of Botany'' (1881) * ''Vegetable Technology'' (1882) * ''Glossary of Botanical Terms'' (1900)

References

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International Plant Names Index The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It inclu ...

1846 births 1927 deaths English taxonomists English botanists {{UK-botanist-stub