While there, he explored the rain forest in Johore with John Corner, the assistant director of the Johore botanical gardens, and later became a distinguished botanist at Cambridge.
During his long career, he became a distinguished botanist, chemist, geologist, hydrologist, meteorologist, mineralogist, zoologist and economic historian, as well as being a minister in the Church of Scotland.
Their son David, who was a distinguished American botanist.
Kenneth Trachtenberg, the 35-year-old narrator, finds his closest human connection in his Uncle Benn, a distinguished botanist.
In 1840 he began the Flora Brasiliensis, with the assistance of the most distinguished European botanists, who undertook monographs of the various orders.
He was honored as "one of the most distinguished Chinese botanists".
Upon 'Vermont' he built a house for his son, Robert William Lawrence, who is recognised as Tasmania's first distinguished botanist in 1826.
Burkill's son, Humphrey Morrison Burkill, was also a distinguished botanist and also served as Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens (1957-1969).
His paternal grandfather, for whom he was named, was Leon María Guerrero, the distinguished botanist, Malolos Congress delegate, and member of the first Philippine Assembly.
For example, I met a distinguished botanist at a dinner party given by a New York book publisher.