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6 unusual facts about George Claridge Druce


Charles Edward Moss

Although of considerable artistic merit, George Claridge Druce (Moss' counterpart at Oxford) criticised them for being scientifically inadequate and lacking in detail.

George Claridge Druce

He presented the City of Oxford with the Sheriff's gold chain and badge, kept in the Town Hall, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

He also featured as a shopkeeper in the Oxford novel Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

High Street, Oxford

In June 1879, George Claridge Druce (also a noted botanist and later mayor of the city) moved to Oxford and set up a chemist's shop, Druce & Co., at 118 High Street.

Lysiosepalum involucratum

The species was transferred to the genus Lysiosepalum in 1917 by English botanist George Claridge Druce.

Schenkia australis

In 1917 the name it was transferred into Centaurium as C. australe by George Claridge Druce, on the grounds that Erythraea was an illegitimate later synonym of Centaurium.


E. F. Warburg

Here his first task was to move of the herbarium from the house of its founder, George Claridge Druce, in Crick Road to the newly built botany school.


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