William Fawcett (botanist)
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William Fawcett was a British
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 botanist and coauthor of the Flora of Jamaica.

Fawcett was Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 from 1887 to 1908. He then returned to Britain where he worked with Alfred Barton Rendle
Alfred Barton Rendle
Alfred Barton Rendle FRS was an English botanist.Rendle was born in Lewisham and studied at St John's College, Cambridge...

to produce the first few volumes of the Flora of Jamaica.

External links

Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London 1910. at the Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/2760
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