Henry Trimen
1843–96
Botanist. Assistant in the botanical department of the British Museum, 1869–79. Appointed to succeed George Henry Kendrick Thwaites as director of the Peradeniya botanic gardens, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), in 1879. Editor of the Journal of Botany, 1871–96. Brother of Roland Trimen. FRS 1888.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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