Nathaniel Cantley (1847–1888) was a British botanist and expert in tropical horticulture, agriculture, and forestry. Nathaniel Cantley worked at

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and was then from 1872 to 1880 the assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Pamplemousses in

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. In 1880 he was appointed superintendent of the

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, as successor to Henry James Murton. In an official report, Cantley estimated that by 1883 about 93 percent of the Straits Settlements' original inland forest had been destroyed. He became sick with fever in Singapore and went on a voyage to Australia with his wife. He died from his illness in Hobart, Tasmania. His successor as superintendent was

Henry Nicholas Ridley Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees i ...

Eponyms

* '' Lithocarpus cantleyanus'' * '' Memecylon cantleyi''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cantley, Nathaniel 1847 births 1888 deaths 19th-century British botanists