George Alexander Gammie (July 1864 - 5 May 1935) was a British botanist who worked in India. He worked on a variety of plant groups including those of economic interest such as cotton and contributed to the knowledge of plants used during famines in India.
George Gammie was born to Mary née Parrell and her husband
James Alexander Gammie James Alexander Gammie (12 November 1839 - 13 April 1924) was a Kew-trained Scottish gardener and botanist known for his work in raising cinchona plantations in Mungpoo in northeastern India and in introducing a process for the extraction of cinch ...
(12 November 1839-13 April1924) who was superintendent in the
cinchona
''Cinchona'' (pronounced or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae containing at least 23 species of trees and shrubs. All are native to the Tropical Andes, tropical Andean forests of western South America. A few species are ...
plantations at
Mungpu. James had come to India and replaced Robert Scott at the Calcutta botanical garden in 1866. Later he moved to Mungpu and John Scott was given the post of Curator of the Calcutta Garden. George Gammie grew up at Mungpu and became interested in the plants of the region. He worked as an assistant in Mungpu from 1881 to 1899 and went on collecting tours to Sikkim and the Brahmaputra Valley. He was placed in charge of the Saharanpur Garden around 1891-92 and the
Lloyd Botanic Garden at Darjeeling around 1893 and was for some time between 1893 and 1896, a Curator at the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. He joined the Government of Bombay in 1899 and worked with the
Botanical Survey of India
Botanical Survey of India (BSI) located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was founded on 13 February 1890, is Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change's organization for survey, research and conservation of pl ...
at Poona working as Economic Botanist from 1904-1908. Gammie's final posting was as Imperial Cotton Specialist, a position he held till his retirement in 1919. He published a monograph on ''The Indian Cottons'' in 1907.
He was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1899. Noted as a genial, slow-moving man of massive build, he was a favourite at conferences of the Indian Imperial Board of Agriculture. He died at his home in Chiswick, Brentford, Middlesex.
References
External links
Gammie, George Alexander (1864-1935)on JSTOR
The Indian Cottons (1907)by Gammie, G. A. (George Alexander)
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20th-century Indian botanists
1864 births
1935 deaths
19th-century Indian botanists