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Andrew Thomas Gage FLS CIE (14 December 1871 – 21 January 1945) was a Scottish botanist and surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who worked at the Calcutta Botanical Garden.

Andrew Thomas Gage

FLS CIE
Andrew Gage c.1907
Born(1871-12-14)14 December 1871
Aberdeen, Scotland
Died21 January 1945(1945-01-21) (aged 73)
Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
NationalityScottish
EducationAberdeen Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
SpouseJean Sturt Bruce
Scientific career
Fields
  • Surgeon
  • Botanist
Author abbrev. (botany)Gage

Biography


Gage was born on 14 December 1871 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Robert Gage.[1] He attended Aberdeen Grammar School before going to the University of Aberdeen graduating MA in 1891 and BSc in 1893. He worked as professor of botany at the University of Aberdeen until 1896. He then studied medicine and joined the Indian Medical Service, going to India in 1898 and serving in the North-West Frontier. He was then posted curator to the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta to succeed David Prain who moved to become director and in this position he made several collection expedition. When Prain moved to Kew in 1905, Gage became the superintendent of the botanical garden. He was also involved in establishing cinchona cultivation and taught at the Medical College in Calcutta. He retired from the directorship of the botanical garden in 1923 and was succeeded by Charles Cumming Calder. He was appointed CIE on 1 January 1923. He died in Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.[2]

Gage was admitted Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1908. He worked on the manuscript by Benjamin Daydon Jackson to produce a History of the Linnean Society of London (1938)[3] which was further expanded upon by W.T. Stearn in 1988.[4] He was married to Jean Sturt Bruce of Kildrummy.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Gage is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Works (selected)




References


  1. Rao, Conjeeveram Hayavadana (1915). The Indian Biographical Dictionary 1915. Madras: Pillar & Co. pp. 151–152.
  2. The Cyclopedia of India. Vol. I. Calcutta: The Cyclopedia Publishing Company. pp. 156–157.
  3. "A History of the Linnean Society of London". Nature. 141 (3577): 895. 1938. doi:10.1038/141895a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
  4. Gage, Andrew Thomas; Stearn, William Thomas (1988) [1938]. A bicentenary history of the Linnean Society of London (Revised ed.). London: Academic Press. ISBN 9780122731501.
  5. International Plant Names Index.  Gage.



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[ru] Гейдж, Эндрю Томас

Эндрю Томас Гейдж (англ. Andrew Thomas Gage[1], 14 декабря 1871 — 21 января 1945) — британский (шотландский) ботаник, коллекционер растений и врач.



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