William ("Gulielmo") Jameson (1796–1873) was a Scottish-

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ian

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. He was born in

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and studied at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He made several voyages as a ship's surgeon, first to

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, then to South America. In 1826 he settled in Quito, Ecuador. He was then appointed professor of chemistry and botany at Universidad Central del Ecuador. He went back to Edinburgh in 1869, returned to Quito in 1872, and died shortly thereafter. Jameson made botanical investigations and collections in

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, Ecuador and in other

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n countries. He began writing a

flora Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...

of Ecuador, ''Synopsis Plantarum Aequatoriensium'', of which Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1865. The work was not completed. Jameson is commemorated in the name of the Andean snipe ('' Gallinago jamesoni)'', and a species of

Buddleja ''Buddleja'' (; ''Buddleia''; also historically given as ''Buddlea'') is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemicity, endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus posthu ...

bush found in Ecuador, '' Buddleja jamesonii''. As well as '' Jamesonia'' by in the Pteridaceae family, first published in 1830, and '' Jamesoniella'', which is a genus of

liverworts Liverworts are a group of non-vascular plant, non-vascular embryophyte, land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in wh ...

in the family Adelanthaceae, published in 1881.

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at the Archives of the Gray Herbarium Library 19th-century Scottish botanists Botanists active in the Arctic Botanists active in South America 1796 births 1873 deaths British emigrants to Ecuador Scientists from Edinburgh People from Quito Academic staff of the Central University of Ecuador {{Ecuador-scientist-stub