Sir Alfred Gibbs Bourne KCIE FRS FLS DSc[1] (8 August 1859, Lowestoft – 14 July 1940, Dartmouth, Devon) was an English zoologist, botanist and educator who worked in India.

Along with his contemporary Sydney J. Hickson, he was fascinated by the lectures of Ray Lankester.

He later joined the University College in 1876 and attended the Royal School of Mines.

After his retirement, he took charge as director of the Indian Institute of Science, holding this position from 1915 to 1921.

These illustrations were used in The Flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-tops by Philip Furley Fyson.