George Marshall Woodrow
George Marshall Woodrow was a British botanist who made contribution to the study of plants in Western India, particularly in the Northern Western Ghats. He served as a gardener at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, in England from 1865 onward. In 1872 he traveled to India to be in charge of Ganeshkind Experimental Garden at Pune and public gardens of Poona. He worked as a lecturer at R. College of Science Poona in 1879 and was the Director of Botanic Survey of Western India 1893–9. In 1898 he participated in K D Naegamvala's expedition to observe the total solar eclipse of 22 January. He died in Lanarkshire.
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Species described by Woodrow
Abutilon ranadei- ''Garnotia arborum''
Species named after Woodrow
Cissus woodrowii Crinum woodrowii- ''Dichanthium woodrowii''