Author: Smith, Andrew
Born: 1828
Died: 1898
Bio: **Andrew Smith** (1828-1898) was born in St Cyrus, Scotland and educated at New College Edinburgh. He always referred to himself as 'Andrew Smith of St Cyrus' to distinguish himself from an earlier, more famous zoologist also named Andrew Smith, with whom he was frequently confused.

He taught history, geography, philosophy and mathematics, at the Lovedale 'College Department' but his real passion was botany. In 1885, he published a humble 23-page pamphlet entitled ‘A Contribution to South African Materia Medica’. It generated an overwhelming response and further information flooded in from all corners of the Eastern Cape.

[Taken partly from [http://www.ru.ac.za/corylibrary/latestnews/name,37115,en.html][1] accessed 29 November 2013, with minor additions]


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