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Isaac Henry Burkill (18 May 1870 – March 8, 1965) was an English botanist. Educated at Repton School and Caius College, Cambridge, Burkill served as Assistant in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1897 to 1899. In 1912 he succeeded H. N. Ridley as Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. In 1935 he published his dictionary of economic products of Malaya, ten years after his retirement. This dictionary was reprinted in 1966, 1993 and 2002. Burkill received the Linnean Medal in 1952.〔"(Recipients of the Linnean Medal )" (PDF). Linnean Society of London. Retrieved on 22 December 2008.〕 Burkill's son, Humphrey Morrison Burkill, was also a distinguished botanist and also served as Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens (1957-1969).〔(Short Biography of H.M. Burkill )〕 ==Awards and Distinctions== * Honorary Fellow of the (Association for Tropical Biology (and Conservation) ) 1963, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isaac Henry Burkill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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