Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. Burnett was the first professor of botany at

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, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of ''Outlines of Botany'' (1835), and ''Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine'', published posthumously and illustrated by his sister

Mary Ann Burnett Mary Ann Burnett (died 18 December 1856) was a British botanist, author and editor. Life and work Burnett was the illustrator and editor of ''Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine'' (1839–40). Some of the text was w ...

. Burnett also wrote articles on

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, such as ''Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies'' (1828).

Publications

* ''Outlines of Botany''. 1835 *
Plantæ utiliores : or Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts & Medicine
' * ''Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies''. 1828 ;An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants :

References

Burnett, Gilbert Thomas (1800–1835), surgeon and botanist
by A. M. Lucas in

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* British botanists 1800 births 1835 deaths Academics of King's College London Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Place of birth missing {{UK-botanist-stub