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词条 George Young (surgeon and botanist)
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George Young (died 1803) was a British military surgeon and botanist who served as the first superintendent of the Botanic Gardens St. Vincent in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[1][2] The naturalist John Ellis, in his book Some Additional Observations on the Method of Preserving Seeds from Foreign Parts (London, 1773) described Young as "principal surgeon to the [St. Vincent military] hospital, whose indefatigable zeal in collecting and propagating a variety of the most valuable plants, is known to all the curious botanists about London."[3] Young's noteworthy efforts in cultivating a variety of tropical plants important for the economy of the British colonies was recognized by the Royal Society of Arts in 1774, which awarded him a gold medal for his work.[4]

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1. ^{{cite web|title=Young, George (-1803)|url=http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000037027|website=JSTOR Global Plants|accessdate=7 November 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Botanical Gardens St. Vincent & the Grenadines, History (1765-1811) |url=http://botanicalgardens.gov.vc/index.php/history/1765-1811 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826192638/http://botanicalgardens.gov.vc/index.php/history/1765-1811 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=26 August 2014 |website=Botanical Gardens St. Vincent & the Grenadines |accessdate=7 November 2014 }}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Ellis|first1=John|authorlink=John Ellis (naturalist)|title=Some Additional Observations on the Method of Preserving Seeds from Foreign Parts|date=1773|publisher=W. Bowyer and J. Nichols|location=London|page=10|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044102815545;view=1up;seq=18|accessdate=7 November 2014}}
4. ^{{cite journal|last1=Howard|first1=Richard A.|title=The St. Vincent Botanic Garden -- The Early Years|journal=Arnoldia|date=1997|volume=57|issue=4 (Fall)|page=13|url=http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1997-57-4-the-st-vincent-botanic-garden-the-early-years.pdf|accessdate=7 November 2014}}
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