George Arnott Walker Arnott was born in Edinburgh in 1799, the son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary (near Kinross). He attended Milnathort Parish School then the High School of Edinburgh.[1] He studied law in Edinburgh.
He and William J. Hooker went through the Australian collected plant material of Alexander Collie, which was sent back to the UK after his death.[2] He was a member of the Societe de Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the Moscow Imperial Society of Natural History.
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