James Alexander Brewer (25 February 1818 – 10 January 1886) was a naturalist, plant-collector, botanist, a writer of local floras, a beetle-collector, and a postmaster in the British Post Office. He was a member of the Botanical Society of London, a member of the Linnean Society of London, and the first honorary secretary of the 'Holmesdale Natural History Club' in Reigate, in the Vale of Homesdale.[1]
In 1856 he published a New flora of the neighborhood of Reigate, Surrey, and in 1861 he was asked by the 'Holmesdale Natural History Club' to edit for publication the manuscript of John Drew Salmons on the Flora of Surrey.
Brewer was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1856.[2]
He collected plants and insects in Great Britain and Australia.[3][4][5]
Brewer died on 10 January 1886 in Tonbridge, Kent.[6]
The standard author abbreviation Brewer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]
Bibliography edit
- Brewer, James Alexander (1856). A new flora of the neighbourhood of Reigate, Surrey: Containing the flowering plants and ferns of the district, with their localities, times of flowering, etc. and a list of the mosses : to which is added an appendix containing lists of the fauna, in the following orders - mammalia or quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, coleoptera, and lepidoptera. London: William Pamplin. OCLC 8922834 (all editions). Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- Salmon, J.D.; Brewer, James Alexander (1863). Flora of Surrey, or, A catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns found in the county: With the localities of the rarer species, from the manuscripts of the late J.D. Salmon and from other sources (PDF). London: Van Voorst. OCLC 15199267 (all editions). Retrieved 15 August 2020.[8]
References edit
- ^ "Surrey Floras". Surrey Botanical Society. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/journalofproceed01linn/page/xvi/mode/2up?q=%22James+Alexander+Brewer%22 Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society, 1857
- ^ Desmond, Ray; Ellwood, Christine (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. Taylor & Francis; and The Natural History Museum, London. p. 98. ISBN 0-85066843-3.
- ^ "Brewer, James Alexander (1818 - 1886)". Australian National Herbarium Biographical Notes. 6 September 2013.
- ^ "Brewer, James Alexander". UK Beetle Recording. 6 December 2018.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Daily News. Vol. III, no. 404. Western Australia. 27 February 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 18 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Brewer.
- ^ For Brewer 1863, see also: OCLC 505159120 (all editions), OCLC 1166823181 (all editions), OCLC 1117224895, OCLC 1171892024, OCLC 57644073 (sometimes the date is given as 1868).