Joseph Whittaker
✓ Source-basedstableBritish botanist, collected in Australia in 1839-40
ScientistsLived 1813 to 1894 · aged 81
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Joseph Whittaker was a British botanist who visited South Australia in 1839. Whittaker has 300 plants from that trip in Kew Gardens and a large collection of pressed British plants in Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
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Adelaide in 1839 where Whittaker was a gardener
The Cos Fishing Station in Encounter Bay in 1838 after William Light
Orchis morio (green-winged orchid). one of Whittaker's pressed plants in Derby Museum herbarium
Gravestone of Joseph Whittaker, A.B.S.E. in Morley, Derbyshire
Drosera whittakeri, also known as Whittaker's sundew, or scented sundew.Scientists born in the 1810s 6
About this person
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1813 to 1894 · aged 81
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