James Lawson Drummond

James Lawson Drummond (1783 , Larne - 1853 was an Irish physician , naturalist and botanistDrummond was educated at the Belfast Academy. He was an apprentice surgeon in the Royal Navy and then studied medicine in Edinburgh. In 1814 he was Physician to Belfast Dispensary and in 1818 was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Belfast Academical Institution. From 1835 to 1836 he was Professor of Botany, and he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Medicine of which he became the first President. He was the first President of the Belfast Natural History Society.

The sea cucumber "Thyonidium drummondi" Drummond’s (Thompson , 1840) [http://www.habitas.org.uk/priority/species.asp?item=633] was named for him.

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