Allan Black
Scottish botanist
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| Intro | Scottish botanist | |
| Places | United Kingdom Scotland | |
| was | Scientist Botanist | |
| Work field | Science | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1832 | |
| Death | 1 January 1866 (aged 34 years) |
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Allan Adamson Black (1832–4 December 1865) was a Scottish botanist. He was the first curator of Kew Herbarium (1853–1864) and a superintendent of the Lal Bagh botanic garden at Bangalore. He died on ship, H.M.S. Dalhousie, off the Cocos Islands on 4 December 1865. He was the fourth son of Reverend John Black of Perthshire.