William Houstoun (c. 1704-1733) was a botanist and physician. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1728. Houstoun worked as a surgeon for the South Sea Company from 1730 and collected plants in Jamaica and Cuba among other places.
Reference:
G. S. Boulger, ‘Houstoun, William (c.1704–1733)’, rev. D. E. Allen, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13876 [accessed 27 Aug 2014]).
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