Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist.

Life

Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany (1835), and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and illustrated by his sister Mary Ann Burnett.

Gilbert Thomas Burnett

Burnett also wrote articles on zoology, such as Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies (1828).

Gilbert Thomas Burnett

Publications

Outlines of Botany. 1835

Plantæ utiliores : or Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts & Medicine Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies. 1828

Gilbert Thomas Burnett

An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants

References

Burnett, Gilbert Thomas (1800–1835), surgeon and botanist by A. M. Lucas in Dictionary of National Biography

External links

British botanists

1800 births

1835 deaths

Academics of King's College London

Fellows of the Linnean Society of London

Place of birth missing