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Index of Botanists

NameLay, George Tradescant
Date of birth1799
Date of death1845
Remarks"G. T. Lay was christened at Stradbroke, Suffolk, England Sept 22,1799 (from a transcript of the parish register) and died at Amoy, China, Nov. 6, 1845 (from Jack J. Gerson's 'Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British relation, 1854-1864 [Harvard East Asian monographs 47, last paragraph of chapter I] a biography of Lays eldest son)" (vide David Hollombe) [collector note: NW America: K (r. 1828); Macao (1827): BM; Mexico: K (r. 1828); Philippines (Voyage in the "Himmaleh", 1836-1837): BM. Collector on Capt. Beechey's Voyage in the "Blossom", 1825-1828]
ASA Botanist ID144807 botanist
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/888f8fc3-3f28-44f3-b276-479eda62d890
Standard/Label NameG. T. Lay
Full NameLay, George Tradescant
Specialty CollectorPhanerogams
Citation as CollectorIndex Herbariorum - Collectors I-L
Citation as Collectorpers. comm. from David Hollombe
Member of teams/groups
Collector Teams:G. T. Lay & A. Collie 

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