Robert Dickson (1804 – 13 October 1875) was a Scottish physician and botanist.

Biography

Dickson was born at

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in 1804, and educated at the high school and the university of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. in 1826. Having settled in London, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1855, and continued to practise there till 1866, when he retired to the country. He was an accomplished botanist, and lectured on botany at the medical school in Webb Street, and afterwards at

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'' were by him, and he also published several articles on popular science in the ‘Church of England Magazine.’ He died on 13 October 1875. In 1834 he married Mary Ann Coope, who also died in 1875. There were six surviving children.

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