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Ernest Edward Galpin
Born(1858-12-06)6 December 1858
Grahamstown
Died16 October 1941(1941-10-16) (aged 82)
Mosdene, Transvaal
Scientific career
Fieldsbotanist and banker
Author abbrev. (botany)Galpin

Ernest Edward Galpin (1858–1941), was a botanist and banker born in the Cape Colony. He left some 16,000 sheets to the National Herbarium in Pretoria and was dubbed "the Prince of Collectors" by General Smuts. Galpin discovered half a dozen genera and many hundreds of new species. Numerous species are named after him such as Acacia galpinii, Bauhinia galpinii, Cyrtanthus galpinii, Kleinia galpinii, Kniphofia galpinii, Streptocarpus galpinii and Watsonia galpinii. He is commemorated in the genus Galpinia N.E.Br.[1] as is his farm in the genus Mosdenia Stent.

  1. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.

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