Background
MORRIS, Daniel was born on May 26, 1844 in Loughor, Glamorgan.
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- The vegetable resources of the West Indies: An address delivered before the London Chamber of Commerce, 27th March, 1888
- Cantor lectures on the plants yielding commercial india-rubber (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
- Cantor Lectures On Commercial Fibres (This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before ...)
Daniel MORRIS
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Cheltenham; Royal College, of Science, South Kensington. Trinity College Dublin. 1st class honours Natural Science.
Gold Medallist.
Master of Arts. Doctor of Civil Law. Doctor of Science.
Career
He was knighted in 1903. After public school at Cheltenham, he was educated at the Royal College of Science South Kensington and at Trinity College Dublin, where he took first class honours in natural science. From 1879 to 1886 he was Director of the Botanic Department in Jamaica.
He collected botanical specimens in British Honduras in 1882.
From 1886 to 1898 he was Assistant Director (under William Thiselton-Dyer) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. From 1898 to 1908 Morris was Imperial Commissioner, West Indian Agricultural Department.
From 1908 to 1913 he was Scientific Advisor in Tropical Agriculture to the Colonial Office. Even when not working in the Caribbean, he visited it on various scientific missions and his substantial output of books and articles on agricultural matters is chiefly concerned with the Caribbean.
He became a Vice-President of the Royal Horticultural Society and of the Royal Empire Society and died on 9 February 1933.
Works
book
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Cantor Lectures On Commercial Fibres
(This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before ...)
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Cantor lectures on the plants yielding commercial india-rubber
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
- The vegetable resources of the West Indies: An address delivered before the London Chamber of Commerce, 27th March, 1888
-
Cantor Lectures On Commercial Fibres
Membership
Fellow of the Linnean Society. Club: Savile.
Connections
Spouse 1879, Margaret Ann,daughter of Captain Aitken, Fellow of the Geological Society, Bacup, Lancashire.
