John miers biography

Retrieved 10 February London: I B Tauris. ISBN Botanical Register t. Plants of the World Online Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 October External links [ edit ]. Authority control databases. Political instability ended this work in and he moved to Rio de Janeiro to fulfil a similar contract with the Brazilian government, returning to England in He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and assisted in the editing of the papers of others, as well as editing his own.

Several taxa are named in his honour. Inbotanist John Lindleypublished Miersiaa plant genus in the Amaryllidaceae. All 5 known species are native to Chile and Bolivia. He bequeathed his fine herbarium of over twenty thousand specimens, together with his voluminous notes and numerous drawings, to the British Museum, his duplicates having been previously presented to the Kew herbarium.

A lithographic portrait of Miers is prefixed to the detailed memoir of him by Mr. Lindley dedicated to him the genus Miersia, a Chilian group of plants. Of these there are six volumes, viz. Among these papers, in addition to monographs of many orders and genera, are some dealing with the structure of the seed and its importance in classification, which are of general botanical interest.

Dictionary of National BiographyErratap.

John miers biography

Personal life [ edit ]. See also [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Archived from the original on 29 September Retrieved 23 October Retrieved 22 January External links [ edit ].