| AdminHistory | Benjamin Daydon Jackson (3 April 1846 – 12 October 1927) was a botanist and taxonomer.
Jackson was born in London on 3 April 1846 to Benjamin Daydon Jackson (c.1806-1855) and Elizabeth Gaze (b.c.1815). He worked as the Secretary of the Linnean Society from 1880. He also produced the 'Index Kewensis'. He died on 12 October 1927. |
| Description | An interleaved copy of Richard Pulteney's 'Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England from its origin to the introduction of the Linnaean System', Vol. 1 (1790). Contains extensive annotations, supplementary notes, letters, and printed pieces added and inserted by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, Spencer Savage and Robert H. Jeffers. Includes a copy of a letter from Pulteney, dated 9 May 1790, [to J. Dryander] relating to the observations and comments which Dryander has offered on Pulteney's book. |