George Dickie (botanist)

George Dickie FRS, FLS (23 Nov 1812, Aberdeen – 15 July 1882) was a Scottish botanist, who specialised in algae.

[1] He became a lecturer on botany in King's College, Aberdeen, then University Librarian.

He was succeeded in 1877 by Prof James William Helenus Trail FRS.

[2] Dickie worked, most importantly on the range and depth of marine algae and on cataloguing material brought back from the Challenger expedition.

[3] He died on 15 July 1882[4] at is buried in the churchyard of St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen.