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Douglas made three separate trips from Britain to North America. His first trip, to eastern North America, began on 3 June 1823, with a return in the late autumn of 1823. The second was to the Pacific Northwest, from July 1824 returning October 1827. [a] His third and final trip started in England in October 1829.
Jul 8, 2024 · David Douglas (born 1798, Scone, Perthshire, Scot.—died July 12, 1834, Sandwich [Hawaiian] Islands) was a Scottish botanist who was a traveller and botanical collector in North America and for whom the Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii, or P. douglasii) and the primrose genus Douglasia are named.
David Douglas's Discoveries & Introductions. David Douglas discovered thousands of plants, mosses and seaweeds. Many were not of interest to the Horticultural Society because they would not thrive in the British climate or were too fragile to succeed; and there was limited use of many of the mosses and seaweeds.
As David Douglas traveled extensively through the Pacific Northwest, California, and Hawaii over the years 1824-34, he sought to uncover the same kinds of deep connections within the physical world that Jefferson and Humboldt had pursued.
1999 was the bicentenary of the birth of the Scotsman David Douglas (1799-1834), who became known as one of the most intrepid of all the remarkable plant hunters of the past 200 years. Douglas travelled to the Pacific Northwest of America as the first botanical explorer to the region and came across a wealth of plants.
David Douglas is one of the best-known botanists in Oregon history, primarily because of the tree that bears the common name Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii, once Pinus douglasii ), the Oregon state tree.
David Douglas lived from 25 June 1799 to 12 July 1834. He was a botanist who gave his name to the Douglas Fir. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. David Douglas was born at Scone near Perth, the son of a stone mason.
