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Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston
Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston
(born in
West Ashby
on 4 September 1902; died in
Barcelona
on 17 March 1958) was an English botanist. His father was a vicar and amateur naturalist who first got him interested in the field. A.H.G. Alston later received his B.A. from the
University of Oxford
. He went on to work at the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
and the colonial Department of Agriculture in
Ceylon
. He joined the
Linnean Society of London
in 1927. This botanist is denoted by the
author abbreviation
Alston
when
citing
a
botanical name
.
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