Gustav Mann
Botanist, Deceased Person
1836 – 1916
Who was Gustav Mann?
Gustav Mann was a German botanist who led expeditions in West Africa and was also a gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Born in Hanover in 1836, he was chosen by William Jackson Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to take part in William Balfour Baikie's expedition to West Africa. While there, he sent numerous specimens back to Kew.
He married Mary Anne Stovell in 1863.
His exploration of the Cameroon Mountains is described by Sir Richard Burton in Abeokuta and the Camaroon Mountains vol. 2
Mann later collected specimens in Darjeeling, India, before retiring to Munich, Germany, in 1891. He died in 1916
Some 349 species of plants, the genera Manniella Hook.f. and Manniophyton Muell. Arg.; and Mann's Spring on the Cameroon Mountain bear his name.
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