Sir David PrainCMG 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.
^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.
Sir DavidPrain CMG CIE FRS FRSE (11 July 1857 – 16 March 1944) was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went...
used the same scientific name to refer to Albizia kalkora written by DavidPrain, the Mimosa kalkora of William Roxburgh.[clarification needed][citation...
appear. A total of 245 genera and 334 plant species were recorded by DavidPrain in 1903. While most of the mangroves in other parts of the world are...
to the Lakshadweep in 1875 were studied by George King and later by DavidPrain. Hume's herbarium specimens were donated to the collection of the Botanical...
century, this tree was thought to be the source of the oil. In 1901, Sir DavidPrain identified the chaulmoogra seeds of the Calcutta bazaar and of the Paris...
New York Botanical Garden. 1917. p. 53. Sir William Jackson Hooker; DavidPrain; Otto Stapf (1856). Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Vol. 82. Reeve Brothers...
Dukinfield Henry Scott 1912–1916: Sir Edward Poulton 1916–1919: Sir DavidPrain 1919–1923: Arthur Smith Woodward 1923–1927: Alfred Barton Rendle 1927–1931:...
Théophile; Benjamin Daydon Jackson; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer; DavidPrain; Arthur William Hill; Edward James Salisbury (1908). Index Kewensis plantarum...
Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir John Halliday Croom, Sir DavidPrain, Sir William Turner and Sir George Andreas Berry. This membership leads...
agendas of forest management in British India 1800–1900. pp. 324–371. Prain, David (1912). "Brandis, Dietrich" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National...
Moore-Lane Frederic J. Mouat Thomas Shephard Novis Harold Rothery Nutt DavidPrain Amar Prasad Ray Leonard Rogers Ronald Ross Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi...
black blight, forming black patches on mango leaves. Massee, George, DavidPrain. Diseases of cultivated plants and trees. New York: Macmillan Publishers...
(1877–1947), Lt. Col. Heber Drury, William Griffith (1810–1845), Sir DavidPrain (1857–1944), J. F. Duthie, P. D. Stracey, Richard Strachey (1817–1908)...
provisionally described as a species by Wilhelm Olbers Focke in 1910. DavidPrain formally recognized it as an accepted species in a supplement to Index...
unjustified dismissal. Despite being a bane to the, then, Kew Director, DavidPrain, the latter recognized the talents of William Purdom and recommended...
Old Chiswick Cemetery on April 17, 1924. The funeral was attended by DavidPrain and a number of his old colleagues. The value of his estate at the time...
1933: Robert Hippolyte Chodat 1934: Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer 1935: Sir DavidPrain 1936: John Stanley Gardiner 1937: Frederick Frost Blackman 1938: Sir...
DavidPrain. He died on 26 October 1934 at Ascension Vicarage in Plumstead in Kent. He married Kate Mowbray Styles in 1879. Their son was Rev David Lawrence...
Indigofera arrecta, experiments on which were also made at Calcutta by DavidPrain) and varieties from around the world. After Hancock left, the station...
later raised plants from seeds that had been presented to him, by Sir DavidPrain, director of the Royal Botanic Garden. Which turned out to be similar...
correspondence with Arthur William Hill, Assistant Director, and Sir DavidPrain, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew about plant collecting...
1966–1967 Sir Vincent Wigglesworth 1945–1946 Carrington Bonsor Williams 1938–1940 C H Gimingham 1928–1929 Edwin John Butler 1920–1921 Sir DavidPrain...
Comptroller and Accountant-General, General Post Office 14 June 1912 Lt-Col. DavidPrain, CIE, FRS Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew 14 June 1912 Francis...
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