Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Edwards, Thomas (fl. 1812), botanist
Description area
Dates of existence
fl. 1811-1812
History
Edwards became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1811 (DBIBH). DBIBH identifies him as the writer (with George Don) of the article on Botany in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1844, but it seems possible that this may have been Thomas Edwards of Banff (1814-1886).
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Sources
Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists