John Drew Salmon
1802–59
Ornithologist and botanist. Probably trained as a maltster under his father; worked in breweries in Thetford and later Godalming. Collected eggs from an early age and donated specimens to the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. By 1843, had joined the Botanical Society of London; compiled a flora of Surrey from 1849. Manager of the Wenham Lake Ice Company from 1851. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
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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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