Thomas Taylor (botanist)

Here his medical knowledge and his purse were freely used for his poorer neighbours during the famine winter of 1847–8, and here he died early in February 1848.

Taylor was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1814, and was also an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Besides Muscologia Britannica, which he published in conjunction with Sir William Jackson Hooker in 1818 (2nd ed.

1827), he wrote much cryptogamic matter for the Flora Antarctica of Joseph Dalton Hooker, and is credited with twenty-three papers, four written in conjunction with that botanist (Roy.

These include an important memoir, De Marchanteis, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, and contributions to the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, The Phytologist, Hooker's Journal of Botany, and the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.