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Darwin Correspondence Project

John Horne

1835–1905

Plant collector and botanist. Worked at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1859–60; Botanic Garden, Mauritius, 1861–91 (director from 1877). Collected plants in Mauritius, the Seychelles, and Fiji.

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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