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The acquisition of Linnaeus's collections in 1784 by Dr. (afterwards Sir) J. E. Smith (1759 and the foundation, four years later, Of the Linnean Society, gave considerable impetus to botanical science in this country whilst the Horticultural Society, founded in 1810, under the presidency of the eminent physiologist, Thomas Andrew Knight (1759 carried out Sir Joseph Banks' policy of sending out collectors. By them the ill-fated David Douglas (1798-1834) was sent to supplement the work of Kalm, of Fraser, of N uttall, and Of the Bartrams in North America; whilst George Don was sent to Brazil; the West Indies, and Sierra Leone.
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The acquisition of Linnaeus's collections in 1784 by Dr. (afterwards Sir) J. E. Smith (1759 and the foundation, four years later, Of the Linnean Society, gave considerable impetus to botanical science in this country whilst the Horticultural Society, founded in 1810, under the presidency of the eminent physiologist, Thomas Andrew Knight (1759 carried out Sir Joseph Banks' policy of sending out collectors. By them the ill-fated David Douglas (1798-1834) was sent to supplement the work of Kalm, of Fraser, of N uttall, and Of the Bartrams in North America; whilst George Don was sent to Brazil; the West Indies, and Sierra Leone.
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This 1889 publication by the English botanist George Simonds Boulger (1853-1922) discusses the progress of economic botany in the nineteenth century. Boulger then notes the commercial application of plants in a range of fields, notably food production, medicine, and the building trade.
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