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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Prain, Lt-Col Sir David
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Description area
Dates of existence
1857-1944
History
Sir David Pain was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He served as President of the Linnean Society from 1916 to 1919