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William Freeman Daniell

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William Freeman Daniell (1818–1865) was a British army surgeon and botanist. From 1847 to 1856 he was stationed in Gambia, the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) and Sierra Leone, where he studied tropical diseases and botany.

He corresponded with William Jackson Hooker and Charles Darwin

The genus Daniellia of legumes was named after him by John Joseph Bennett.

The standard author abbreviation Daniell is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

  1. "Daniell, William Freeman (1818–1865)". Aluka.
  2. Darwin Correspondence Project; letters 1970 and 1988.
  3. International Plant Names Index.  Daniell.
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