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Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist.

Life

Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany (1835), and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and illustrated by his sister Mary Ann Burnett.

Burnett also wrote articles on zoology, such as Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies (1828).

Publications

  • Outlines of Botany. 1835
  • Plantæ utiliores : or Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts & Medicine
  • Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies. 1828

;An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants

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References

  • Burnett, Gilbert Thomas (1800–1835), surgeon and botanist by A. M. Lucas in Dictionary of National Biography