Isaac Anderson-Henry

Isaac Anderson-Henry (né Anderson, 1800– 21 September 1884) was a Scottish lawyer and horticulturist.

A lawyer in practice in Edinburgh, he retired from law practice in 1861 upon his wife's inheritance of estates in Woodend, Perthshire, when he changed his name to Anderson-Henry, enabling him to pursue horticulture.[1] He was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1867-8),[2] and collected pants from right around the world, including the Andes, north-western Himalayas, and New Zealand. He studied plant hybridisation in a time that was before the rediscovery of genetics,[3] and was a sometime correspondent of Charles Darwin.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/person/namedef-115
  2. ↑ http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/darwin/anderson.html
  3. ↑ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03746608609468252 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03746608609468253
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