William Freeman Daniell
| William Freeman Daniell MD, FRGS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1818 | ||||||||
| Died | 1865 | ||||||||
| Residence | Sierra Leone | ||||||||
| Occupation |
medical armed services | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ESL Council 1851-52 member
ESL Council 1852-53 member
House Notes
assistant staff surgeon
[have combined this with other w.f. freeman, and says he is from 1862 list]
he is mentioned in the 1852 annual discourse
Notes From Elsewhere
William Freeman Daniell (1818–1865) was a British army surgeon and botanist. From 1847 to 1856 he was stationed in Gambia, the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) and Sierra Leone, where he studied tropical diseases and botany.[1]
He corresponded with William Jackson Hooker and Charles Darwin[2]
The genus Daniellia of legumes was named after him by John Joseph Bennett.
Publications
External Publications
House Publications
On the Natives of Old Callebar. read 28 jan. 1846 in Edinburgh Phil. J 1846 p. 313
On the ethnography of Akkrah and Adempe. Read 14 Jan 1852
Continuation read 11 Feb 1852. Printed
On the ordeal, or fetish tree of Western Africa Read 14 feb 1855
