George Arnott Walker-Arnott (6 February 1799 – 17 June 1868) was a Scottish botanist.
He studied law in Edinburgh but became a botanist later. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in studies of Indian botany. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Arn. when citing a botanical name.[1]
References
- ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
External links
- Hooker, Sir William Jackson; G. A. Walker-Arnott, Esq. (1841). The Botany of Captain Beechey's voyage. Henry George Bohn. http://books.google.com/books?id=V7HuvtYs6J4C.
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