Thomas Gibson Lea
Born(1785-12-14)December 14, 1785
Wilmington, Delaware
DiedSeptember 30, 1844(1844-09-30) (aged 58)
Waynesville, Ohio
NationalityAmerican

Thomas Gibson Lea (December 14, 1785 – September 30, 1844) was an American botanist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware.[1] He was the older brother of the publisher, Isaac Lea and the younger brother of John Lea (1782-1862), who is known for his study of a cholera outbreak in Cincinnati, Ohio.[2]

He was honoured with Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803 - 1889), an English cryptogamist and clergyman in the naming of Berkleasmium (in 1854), which is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Dematiaceae.[3]

References

  1. ↑ James Grant Wilson; John Fiske (1898). Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Grinnell-Lockwood. D. Appleton. pp. 645–.
  2. ↑ Morens, David M. (2013). "Commentary: Cholera conundrums and proto-epidemiologic puzzles. The confusing epidemic world of John Lea and John Snow". International Journal of Epidemiology. 42 (1): 43–52. doi:10.1093/ije/dyt016. PMC 3600629. PMID 23508406.
  3. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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