William Freeman Daniell
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.[1]
He corresponded with William Jackson Hooker and Charles Darwin[2]
The genus Daniellia of legumes was named after him by John Joseph Bennett.
References[edit]
- ^ "Daniell, William Freeman (1818–1865)". Aluka.
- ^ Darwin Correspondence Project; letters 1970 and 1988.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Daniell.
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