David Prain

Sir
David Prain
Born(1857-07-11)11 July 1857
Fettercairn, Scotland
Died16 March 1944(1944-03-16) (aged 86)
Whyteleafe, England
NationalityScottish
EducationAberdeen Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Sir David Prain CMG CIE FRS FRSE[1] (11 July 1857 – 16 March 1944) was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

  1. ^ Burkill, I. H. (1944). "David Prain. 1857-1944". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (13): 746–770. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1944.0020. S2CID 162727884.

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