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ANOTHER Kew veteran has passed away in the person of JOHN READER JACKSON, who died on October 28 at his house at Lympstone, near Ex-mouth, Devon, aged eighty-three. Mr. Jackson was born in 1837 at Knightsbridge, but his family removed about 1843 to Canterbury, where he received his early education, returning in 1851 to school in London. Through the influence of Prof. Thomas Bell, then president of the Linnean Society of London, he was given charge of the museums at Kew, then in process of development under Sir William Hooker, and for nearly twenty years he discharged his duties single-handed, until in 1879 he received the help of an assistant. His work left him but little time for literary diversion, but we owe to him not a few contributions in applied botany in various journals, as in those of the Linnean and Pharmaceutical Societies, the Technologist, Gardeners' Chronicle, and the like. Mr. Jackson brought out a new edition of Barton and Castle's “British Flora Medica” in 1877, and m 1890 appeared his excellent “Commercial Botany of the Nineteenth Century.” He was elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1868, and was the senior on the list at the time of his death.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 511 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106511a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106511a0