Marmaduke Alexander Lawson (20 January 1840,
Seaton Carew
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,
County Durham
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– 14 February 1896,
Madras
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
) was a British botanist.
Lawson matriculated at
Trinity College, Cambridge in 1858 and graduated there B.A. 1862 and M.A. 1868. He was
Sherardian Professor of Botany and Rural Economy at Oxford from 1868 to 1883 until he resigned in favour of a post in Madras. From 1883 until his death in 1896, he was Director of the
Tamil Nadu Botanical Department at
Ootacamund and at Madras (formally, Director of Government
''Cinchona'' Plantations, Parks, and Gardens, Nilgiris). His duties included naming and arranging the Madras herbarium and overseeing the production and sale of
''Cinchona'' bark from the Government ''Cinchona'' plantations in the
Nilgiri Hills,
Nilgiris District.
Lawson was elected
F.L.S. in 1869. He was President of Section of Zoology and Botany of the
British Association in 1882.
Eponyms
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Pteleopsis myrtifolia
''Pteleopsis myrtifolia'' ('Ptelea' = elm, 'opsis' = resembling, 'myrtifolia' = leaves like those of the myrtle) is one of some 10 African species in this genus in the family of Combretaceae. It is the only ''Pteleopsis'' species to occur in Sout ...
'' (M.A.Lawson) Engl. &
Diels Diels is the last name of several people:
* Rudolf Diels (1900–1957), German politician
* Otto Diels (1876–1954), German scientist noted for his work on the Diels–Alder reaction
* Ludwig Diels (1874–1945), German botanist
* Hermann Diels
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''Pteleopsis myrtifolia'' (M.A.Lawson) Engl. & Diels — The Plant List
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Selected publications
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References
External links
Prof Marmaduke Alexander Lawson MA FLS, collector, Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, herbariaunited.org
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1840 births
1896 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Botanists with author abbreviations
Sherardian Professors of Botany