John Imray

John Imray

Dr. John Imray (January 11, 1811 – August 22, 1880) was a medical doctor, legislator, agriculturist and botanist. Born in Scotland he studied medicine at Edinburgh University and arrived in Dominica in 1832 to take up the only public medical post at the time: surgeon to the prison.

Imray published papers on tropical diseases and botany, corresponded with William Hooker and sent plants to John Lindley at the herbarium at Kew and to August Grisebach at Goettingen.

He was instrumental in agricultural policy, development and sanitation on Dominica .

After him are named many plants as well as the Imray ward at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Rousseau, Dominica.

External links

* [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=imrayi&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch IPNI]

References

* Urban, Ignaz. "Notae biographicae," Symb. Antill. 3:67,1900.
* [http://dominica.dexia.dm/index.php?action=artikel&cat=9&id=142&artlang=en Biography]


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