Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist (1796–1873)
William Jameson by Antonio Salas, 1842
William ("Gulielmo") Jameson (1796–1873) was a Scottish -Ecuadorian botanist . He was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . He made several voyages as a ship's surgeon, first to Baffin Bay , 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 Greenland , Ecuador and in other South American countries. He began writing a flora 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 bush found in Ecuador, Buddleja jamesonii .
As well as Jamesonia by Hook. & Grev. in the Pteridaceae family, first published in 1830,[ 1] and Jamesoniella , which is a genus of liverworts in the family Adelanthaceae , published in 1881.[ 2]
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