Thomas Coulter
Thomas Coulter (1793–1843), of Dundalk, was an Irish physician, botanist and explorer. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, and founder of the college's herbarium.[1]
After completing his medical degree in Dublin, Coulter studied botany in Geneva for seventeen months under Swiss taxonomist Augustin de Candolle. Coulter then moved from Switzerland and became a physician with the Real del Monte Company in Mexico, during this period he collected and catalogued plants in the region. He eventually left Mexico and travelled the world exploring many countries and conducting botanical research culminating in Arizona and Alta California in the early 19th century. He subsequently returned to Ireland in 1834 and became the founding curator of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin. Though he was a physician by profession, Coulter achieved success in different fields and is best remembered as a great explorer and a pioneer in botany. [2]
References[]
- ^ E. Charles Nelson & Alan Probert. A Man Who Can Speak Of Plants / Dr Thomas Coulter of Dundalk in Ireland, Mexico and Alta California. Privately published by E. Charles Nelson, Dublin, 1994. ISBN 0-9524847-0-6
- ^ Christian Lamb (2004). From the Ends of the Earth: Passionate Plant Collectors Remembered in a Cornish Garden (illustrated ed.). Christian Lamb. p. 62. ISBN 9781903071083.
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