Percy Wilson (botanist)

Percy Wilson (1879–1944)[1] was an American botanist.

He joined the New York Botanical Gardens (NYBG) as a museum aide.

He traveled to Singapore and the Dutch East Indies in 1910, collecting various specimens – the first official NYBG-sponsored trip to the Asia-Pacific region.

Wilson then became the assistant to Nathaniel Lord Britton, the NYBG Director-in-Chief.

[2] In 1917, Wilson authored The Vegetation of Vieques Island.

Photo from March 1944 issue of Journal of The New York Botanical Garden