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Foliage of Meryta denhamii, discovered by Milne in New Caledonia
William Grant Milne (11 May 1829, Banff, Aberdeenshire – 1866), was a Scottish botanist.
A gardener at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Milne joined the Herald expedition to the southwestern Pacific (1852–1856) as a botanist. The expedition visited, inter alia, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales and Western Australia. Milne was initially accompanied by fellow Scots botanist John MacGillivray, who left the ship in 1855 after a dispute with Captain Henry Mangles Denham.
Milne, the discoverer of several plants, including the rare New Caledonian tree Meryta denhamii which he found growing on the Isle of Pines in 1853 and sent to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, had botanist Berthold Carl Seemann name the plant Meryta denhamii after Captain Denham (for whom the town of Denham, Western Australia was also named). The plant was described from specimens that had flowered in a greenhouse in Kew in 1860.
W. G. Milne collected in South Africa (1852–1853) and in a later expedition in West Africa (1862–1866), where he was forced to sell his clothes when his funds ran out and walked naked for some two hundred miles. He died in Creek Town, Old Calabar (Nigeria).[1]
The Times of London mentions in its 14 March 1866 edition that "Professor Milne, the celebrated botanist, has commenced the ascension of the Cameroons mountains".[2]
^"Milne, William Grant (–1866)". Global Plants, plants.jstor.org.
^The Times (London, England), Wed, 14 Mar 1866, page 12 as seen on Newspapers.com on 26 March 2023.
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