Douglas David

Douglas, David (1798-1834), a Scottish botanist. While working in the Botanical Gardens at Glasgow he attracted notice, and in 1823 became collector to the Horticultural Society of London. He went to the United States, explored the Columbia river and California, travelled from Vancouver to Hudson's Bay making collections, and gave his name to the Abies Douglasii. Finally he lost his life in the Sandwich Isles by falling accidentally into a wild-beast trap and being killed by an animal already entrapped.