John Davenport Snowden and wife, Uganda 1916

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John Davenport Snowden, botanical explorer and plant collector, with his wife, standing outside their tent at a camp near Kampala, Uganda, in 1916. Snowden began work in Uganda in 1911, when he became Assistant Agricultural Officer. He sent many specimens back to Kew. The red hot poker Kniphofia thompsonii var. snowdenii is named after him
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Media ID 10645158
Date: 12th February 2015
Copyright Status: Copyrighted Work
Owner URL: http://www.kew.org/
Credit: Copyright RBG Kew
Filename: p071 - 006838LA20120717-011 Snowden tent.jpg
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Associated Categories: History
Associated Categories: History
Associated Categories: Travel, Explorers and Expeditions
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