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Isaac Henry Burkill

January 01, 1970

Isaac Henry Burkill (18 May 1870 – 8 March 1965) was an English botanist who worked in India and in the Straits Settlements (present day Singapore). He worked primarily in economic botany but published extensively on plant biology, ethno-botany, insect-plant interactions and described several species. He published a two volume compilation on the plants of economic importance in the Malay Peninsula, collating local names and knowledge. He also wrote a detailed history of botany in India. The plant genera Burkillia and Burkillianthus were named in his honour.

Isaac Henry Burkill
c. 1907
Born(1870-05-18)18 May 1870
near Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Died8 March 1965(1965-03-08) (aged 94)
Leatherhead, Surrey, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
AwardsLinnean Medal (1952)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Botanic Garden at Calcutta
Botanic Gardens, Singapore
Author abbrev. (botany)Burkill

Life and career edit

Burkill was born in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, Yorkshire, he studied at Repton School and received a B.A. with Honours in Natural Science from Caius College, Cambridge winning the Frank Smart Prize. He then joined the University Herbarium at Cambridge as Curator from 1891 to 1896 during which time he obtained a master's degree receiving a Walsingham medal in 1894. In 1897 he joined the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as a Herbarium assistant and became a principal assistant in 1899. In 1901 he moved to India as an Assistant Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of India. He worked at the Indian Museum in Calcutta under Sir George Watt who was the Reporter.[1] In 1911-12 he joined as botanist on the Abor Expedition.[2] In 1912 he succeeded H. N. Ridley as Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. He continued the work of his predecessor on the para-rubber and other aspects of economic botany but also reorganized the herbarium, collected specimens from across the region and worked intensively on vernacular names and local knowledge on medicinal plants. In 1935 he published his two-volume Dictionary of economic products of Malay Peninsula, ten years after his retirement which has been reprinted many times. Burkill also collected and compiled information on the collectors of specimens in the region.[3] Burkill also worked in collaboration with the forestry department, conducting research on dipterocarps.[4][5]

Burkill married his cousin Ethel Maud Morrison in 1910.[6] Their son, Humphrey Morrison Burkill, was also a distinguished botanist who served as director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens from 1957 to 1969.[7][8]

Botanical publications edit

Burkill conducted research on insect pollination and floral biology over the course of many years. He published a series of eight articles in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1906 to 1916. He also encouraged other researchers in the region to study pollination including amateur botanists like Maude Lina West Cleghorn. Burkill applied evolutionary ideas to suggest values of adaptations. In his 1908 study of flowers along a ridge in the Sikkim Himalayas, he suggested that the preponderance of pendulous flowers in the region were an adaptation to protect the nectar and pollen from rain[9] and in his 1952 Hooker lecture he suggested that yams had evolved underground storages to protect themselves from pigs and humans.[10]

  • Burkill, I.H. (1906). "Note on the pollination of flowers in India. Note no 1. The pollination of Thunbergia grandiflora, Roxb. in Calcutta". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 2 (10): 511–514.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1906). "Notes on the pollinatio of flowers in India. Note no 2. The pollination of Corchorus in Bengal and Assam". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 2 (10): 515–520.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1906). "Notes on the pollination of flowers in India. Note no. 3. The mechanism of six flowers of the North-West Himalaya". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 2 (10): 521–525.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1907). "Notes on the pollination of flowers in India. Note no 4. On Cotton in Behar". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 3 (7): 517–526.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1908). "Notes on the pollination of flowers in India. Note no 5. Some autumn observations in the Sikkim Himalayas". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 4: 179–195.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1910). "Notes on the pollination of flowers in India. Note no 7. A few observations made in the Central Provinces and Behar". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 6: 101–107.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1916). "Notes on the pollination of flowers in India. Note no. 8. Miscellanea". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 12: 239–265.

Burkill also wrote a seven part series on the history of botany in India, published initially in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society and later as a separate book. This work covered the range of botanical workers in India and is an important source on the topic although there were some minor errors such as a mention of "Dapoli" in place of "Dapuri".[11] Burkill similarly wrote a study on the history of the Singapore botanic garden.[12]

  • Burkill, I.H. (1954). "Chapters on the history of botany in India. I. From the beginning to the middle of Wallich's service". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 51: 846–878.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1956). "Chapters on the history of botany in India. II. The advances, and in particular the plant collecting, of the thirties and the forties of the 19th century". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 54: 42–86.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1961). "Chapters on the History of Botany in India. III. At the middle of the 19th century". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 58 (3): 678–706.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1962). "Chapters on the History of Botany in India. IV. The Royal Gardens at Kew begin to guide the direction of Botany in India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 59 (2): 335–359.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1962). "Chapters on the history of botany in India V. The undertaking of two great enterprises, the flora of the higher plants and the forest service". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 59 (3): 747–777.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1963). "Chapters on the history of botany in India. VI. The publication of Hooker's Flora of British India and what its publication released". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 60 (1): 49–83.
  • Burkill, I.H. (1963). "Chapters on the history of botany in India. VII. Epilogue". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 60 (2): 356–370.

Awards and Distinctions edit

  • Honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology (and Conservation) 1963.
  • Linnean Medal in 1952.[13]
The standard author abbreviation Burkill is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[14]

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ "Isaac Henry Burkill (BRKL888IH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Burkill, I. H. (1924). "The Botany of the Abor expedition". Rec. Bot. Surv. India. 10 (1): 376–381.
  3. ^ Burkill, Isaac Henry (August 1927). "Botanical Collectors, Collections and Collecting Places in the Malay Peninsula". The Gardens' Bulletin; Straits Settlements. Vol. 4. Singapore. pp. 113–202.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Santapau, H. (1960). "I. H. Burkill in India". The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore. 17 (3): 341–349.
  5. ^ Furtado, C.X.; Holttum, R.E. (1959). "I.H. Burkill in Malaya". Gardens Bulletin, Singapore. 17 (3): 350–356.
  6. ^ Winstedt, R. O. (2011). "Isaac Henry Burkill". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 97: 88. doi:10.1017/S0035869X0012413X.
  7. ^ Turner, Ian Mark (2006). "Obituary: Humphrey Morrison Burkill O.B.E., F.L.S. (1914—2006)". Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore. 58: 133–139.
  8. ^ . Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  9. ^ "Annual report for 1908". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: xix. 1909.
  10. ^ Burkill, I. H. (1953). "The Hooker Lecture". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 164: 12–42. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1953.tb00664.x.
  11. ^ Agharkar, S.P. (1958). "Chapters on the history of botany in India by I.H. Burkill, in this journal 51:846-878 A correction". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 52.
  12. ^ Wong, K.M. (2012). "A hundred years of the Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore". Gardens' Bulletin Singapore. 64 (1): 1–32.
  13. ^ "Recipients of the Linnean Medal 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine" (PDF). Linnean Society of London. Retrieved on 22 December 2008.
  14. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Burkill.

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January 01, 1970
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Isaac Henry Burkill 18 May 1870 8 March 1965 was an English botanist who worked in India and in the Straits Settlements present day Singapore He worked primarily in economic botany but published extensively on plant biology ethno botany insect plant interactions and described several species He published a two volume compilation on the plants of economic importance in the Malay Peninsula collating local names and knowledge He also wrote a detailed history of botany in India The plant genera Burkillia and Burkillianthus were named in his honour Isaac Henry Burkillc 1907Born 1870 05 18 18 May 1870near Leeds Yorkshire EnglandDied8 March 1965 1965 03 08 aged 94 Leatherhead Surrey EnglandAlma materUniversity of CambridgeAwardsLinnean Medal 1952 Scientific careerFieldsBotanyInstitutionsUniversity of CambridgeRoyal Botanic Gardens KewBotanic Garden at CalcuttaBotanic Gardens SingaporeAuthor abbrev botany Burkill Contents 1 Life and career 2 Botanical publications 3 Awards and Distinctions 4 Notes and references 5 External linksLife and career editBurkill was born in Chapel Allerton Leeds Yorkshire he studied at Repton School and received a B A with Honours in Natural Science from Caius College Cambridge winning the Frank Smart Prize He then joined the University Herbarium at Cambridge as Curator from 1891 to 1896 during which time he obtained a master s degree receiving a Walsingham medal in 1894 In 1897 he joined the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew as a Herbarium assistant and became a principal assistant in 1899 In 1901 he moved to India as an Assistant Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of India He worked at the Indian Museum in Calcutta under Sir George Watt who was the Reporter 1 In 1911 12 he joined as botanist on the Abor Expedition 2 In 1912 he succeeded H N Ridley as Director of the Botanic Gardens Singapore He continued the work of his predecessor on the para rubber and other aspects of economic botany but also reorganized the herbarium collected specimens from across the region and worked intensively on vernacular names and local knowledge on medicinal plants In 1935 he published his two volume Dictionary of economic products of Malay Peninsula ten years after his retirement which has been reprinted many times Burkill also collected and compiled information on the collectors of specimens in the region 3 Burkill also worked in collaboration with the forestry department conducting research on dipterocarps 4 5 Burkill married his cousin Ethel Maud Morrison in 1910 6 Their son Humphrey Morrison Burkill was also a distinguished botanist who served as director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens from 1957 to 1969 7 8 Botanical publications editBurkill conducted research on insect pollination and floral biology over the course of many years He published a series of eight articles in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1906 to 1916 He also encouraged other researchers in the region to study pollination including amateur botanists like Maude Lina West Cleghorn Burkill applied evolutionary ideas to suggest values of adaptations In his 1908 study of flowers along a ridge in the Sikkim Himalayas he suggested that the preponderance of pendulous flowers in the region were an adaptation to protect the nectar and pollen from rain 9 and in his 1952 Hooker lecture he suggested that yams had evolved underground storages to protect themselves from pigs and humans 10 Burkill I H 1906 Note on the pollination of flowers in India Note no 1 The pollination of Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb in Calcutta Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 2 10 511 514 Burkill I H 1906 Notes on the pollinatio of flowers in India Note no 2 The pollination of Corchorus in Bengal and Assam Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 2 10 515 520 Burkill I H 1906 Notes on the pollination of flowers in India Note no 3 The mechanism of six flowers of the North West Himalaya Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 2 10 521 525 Burkill I H 1907 Notes on the pollination of flowers in India Note no 4 On Cotton in Behar Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3 7 517 526 Burkill I H 1908 Notes on the pollination of flowers in India Note no 5 Some autumn observations in the Sikkim Himalayas Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 4 179 195 Burkill I H 1910 Notes on the pollination of flowers in India Note no 7 A few observations made in the Central Provinces and Behar Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 6 101 107 Burkill I H 1916 Notes on the pollination of flowers in India Note no 8 Miscellanea Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 12 239 265 Burkill also wrote a seven part series on the history of botany in India published initially in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society and later as a separate book This work covered the range of botanical workers in India and is an important source on the topic although there were some minor errors such as a mention of Dapoli in place of Dapuri 11 Burkill similarly wrote a study on the history of the Singapore botanic garden 12 Burkill I H 1954 Chapters on the history of botany in India I From the beginning to the middle of Wallich s service Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 846 878 Burkill I H 1956 Chapters on the history of botany in India II The advances and in particular the plant collecting of the thirties and the forties of the 19th century Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 54 42 86 Burkill I H 1961 Chapters on the History of Botany in India III At the middle of the 19th century Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 58 3 678 706 Burkill I H 1962 Chapters on the History of Botany in India IV The Royal Gardens at Kew begin to guide the direction of Botany in India Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 59 2 335 359 Burkill I H 1962 Chapters on the history of botany in India V The undertaking of two great enterprises the flora of the higher plants and the forest service Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 59 3 747 777 Burkill I H 1963 Chapters on the history of botany in India VI The publication of Hooker s Flora of British India and what its publication released Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 60 1 49 83 Burkill I H 1963 Chapters on the history of botany in India VII Epilogue Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 60 2 356 370 Awards and Distinctions editHonorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 1963 Linnean Medal in 1952 13 The standard author abbreviation Burkill is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name 14 Notes and references edit Isaac Henry Burkill BRKL888IH A Cambridge Alumni Database University of Cambridge Burkill I H 1924 The Botany of the Abor expedition Rec Bot Surv India 10 1 376 381 Burkill Isaac Henry August 1927 Botanical Collectors Collections and Collecting Places in the Malay Peninsula The Gardens Bulletin Straits Settlements Vol 4 Singapore pp 113 202 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Santapau H 1960 I H Burkill in India The Gardens Bulletin Singapore 17 3 341 349 Furtado C X Holttum R E 1959 I H Burkill in Malaya Gardens Bulletin Singapore 17 3 350 356 Winstedt R O 2011 Isaac Henry Burkill Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain amp Ireland 97 88 doi 10 1017 S0035869X0012413X Turner Ian Mark 2006 Obituary Humphrey Morrison Burkill O B E F L S 1914 2006 Gardens Bulletin Singapore 58 133 139 Short Biography of H M Burkill Archived from the original on 22 August 2011 Retrieved 24 April 2011 Annual report for 1908 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal xix 1909 Burkill I H 1953 The Hooker Lecture Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 164 12 42 doi 10 1111 j 1095 8312 1953 tb00664 x Agharkar S P 1958 Chapters on the history of botany in India by I H Burkill in this journal 51 846 878 A correction Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 52 Wong K M 2012 A hundred years of the Gardens Bulletin Singapore Gardens Bulletin Singapore 64 1 1 32 Recipients of the Linnean Medal Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine PDF Linnean Society of London Retrieved on 22 December 2008 International Plant Names Index Burkill External links editWorks by or about Isaac Henry Burkill at Internet Archive Isaac Henry Burkill Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine at National Herbarium Nederland Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Isaac Henry Burkill amp oldid 1170812736, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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