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Darwin Correspondence Project

Henry Fletcher Hance

1827–86

Diplomat and botanist. Stationed in Hong Kong, 1844; vice-consul, Whampoa, 1861–78; consul, Canton, 1878–81 and 1883; acting consul, Amoy, 1886. Published a supplement to George Bentham’s Flora Hongkongensis (1861) in 1873.

Source

R. Desmond 1994.

Bibliography

Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.

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