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Thomas Robertson Sim

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South African botanist (1858-1938)

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Thomas Robertson Sim was a botanist, bryologist, botanical artist and Conservator of Forests in Natal, best known for his monumental work The Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope which appeared in 1907.

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Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

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Thomas Robertson Sim was a botanist, bryologist, botanical artist and Conservator of Forests in Natal, best known for his monumental work The Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope which appeared in 1907. He was the eldest of five children of John Sim (1824-1901), a noted bryologist and Isabella Thomson Robertson (1823-).

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South Africa
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1858 to 1938 · aged 80
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