James Scott Pringle (August 14, 1937 – September 3, 2024)[1][2] was an American botanist and historian living in Canada.
He named or updated the taxonomy of at least 100 species, subspecies, and sub-families of various vascular plants, mostly in the Gentian Family.
M. pringleana is a one- to five-metre tall member of the Gentian Family from the Central Andes, just north of the equator.
[6] In 2015 a newly discovered species of Gentian native to the Himalayas, Kuepferia pringlei, was named to honour Pringle.
For example, in 2018 he co-authored A Noble and Independent Course, the Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchel, the first person of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College and the Ivy League (University of Chicago Press) with Dr. Forrester A.