Berthold Carl Seemann (1825–71)

German-born traveller and botanist. Studied botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1844–6. Naturalist to HMS Herald, 1847–51. Commissioned in 1860 to report on the Fiji Islands and published a flora of the islands. Editor of Bonplandia, 1853–62; of the Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 1863–71. Travelled in Venezuela in 1864; in Nicaragua, 1866–7.