Anstruther Davidson (1860–1932) was a Scottish-American physician, professor of medicine, botanist, and entomologist.

Biography

Born in Scotland, Davidson attended the

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, where he graduated CM MB in 1881 and received his higher MD in 1887. He served a medical internship in the

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and then went into private practice at Thornhill,

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. After some time spent in Vienna, he emigrated in 1889 to the United States. He practiced medicine in Los Angeles and published papers in medical journals. He became an associate professor of dermatology at the

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, while simultaneously studying natural history and publishing papers on botany and entomology. In 1897 he married Alice Jane Merritt (1859–1931), author of ''California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children'' (1898). Anstruther Davidson died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles on April 3, 1932.

Selected publications

* * * with George L. Moxley:

Eponyms

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* ''Malvastrum davidsonii'' B.L.Rob.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Davidson, Anstruther Botanists with author abbreviations 1860 births 1932 deaths 19th-century American botanists 20th-century American botanists Alumni of the University of Glasgow Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty British emigrants to the United States