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William Jack (1795, Aberdeen – 1822, Bencoolen, Sumatra) was a Scottish botanist. Jack was employed by the East India Company as a surgeon in India, where he also studied botany and corresponded extensively with Nathaniel Wallich. In 1818 he accompanied Stamford Raffles to Sumatra where he extensively documented the rich flora of that region until his death in 1822.〔 Much of his work, including manuscripts, drawings, and collections were destroyed by fire in 1824.〔 Three plant genera are named after him: * ''Jakkia'' Blume, 1823, in family Polygalaceae (but not validly published) * ''Jackia'' Wall., 1824, a synonym of ''Jackiopsis'' Ridsdale,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008 (more or less continuously updated since ) )〕 in family Rubiaceae * ''Jackia'' Spreng., nom. illeg., 1826, a synonym of ''Eriolaena'' in family Malvaceae == Published works == * ''Descriptions of Malayan Plants'' 1820–1822. Originally published in ''Malayan Miscellanies'', and reprinted in various forms at later dates. * William Jack, communicated by Robert Brown (1823) (On the Malayan Species of ''Melastoma'' ), Transactions of The Linnean Society of London 14(1): 1-22 * William Jack, communicated by Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1823) (On Cyrtandraceae, a new Natural Order of Plants ), Transactions of The Linnean Society of London 14(1): 23-45 * William Jack, communicated by Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1823) (Account of the ''Lansium'' and some other Genera of Malayan Plants ), Transactions of The Linnean Society of London 14(1): 114-130 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「William Jack (botanist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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