Percy Wilson (botanist)

{{short description|American botanist}}

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Percy Wilson (1879–1944){{Cite journal|title = Wilson, Percy (1879-1944) on JSTOR|url = http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000009336}} was an American botanist.

He joined the New York Botanical Gardens (NYBG) as a museum aide. He traveled to Singapore and the Dutch East Indies in 1910, collecting various specimens – the first official NYBG-sponsored trip to the Asia-Pacific region. Wilson then became the assistant to Nathaniel Lord Britton, the NYBG Director-in-Chief. In 1914 Wilson became an Associate Curator.{{Cite web|url = http://www.nybg.org/library/finding_guide/archv/wilson_irf.html|title = Percy Wilson Records (RG4)|website = www.nybg.org|access-date = 2016-04-10}}

In 1917, Wilson authored The Vegetation of Vieques Island.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cZx2nQEACAAJ|title = The Vegetation of Vieques Island|date = 1917-01-01|publisher = New York Botanical Garden|language = en}}

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