John Ralfs
1807–90
Surgeon and botanist. Gave up medical practice because of ill health. Resided in Penzance, Cornwall, where he pursued his botanical researches, specialising in freshwater algae, 1837–90. After suffering financial losses, he was provided with an annuity from a relief fund set up by Thomas Henry Huxley and Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1858.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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