Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist.
Life Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany (1835), and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and illustrated by his sister Mary Ann Burnett. The standard author abbreviation Burnett is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Burnett also wrote articles on zoology, such as Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies (1828).
Publications Outlines of Botany. 1835 Plantæ utiliores : or Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts & Medicine Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies. 1828
References Burnett, Gilbert Thomas (1800–1835), surgeon and botanist by A. M. Lucas in Dictionary of National Biography
External links Works by or about Gilbert Thomas Burnett at the Internet Archive