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.

References

  1. "Daniell, William Freeman (1818–1865)". Aluka.
  2. Darwin Correspondence Project; letters 1970 and 1988.
  3. International Plant Names Index.  Daniell.
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