Biography
George Boole Hinton, English-born Mexican mining engineer and plant collector (Marylebone, London 1882 – Ciudad de mexico 1943)
A relative of mathematician George Boole
With his son collected 471 new plant species
PATENTS (1928)
Process of making a cementitious material of cellular texture (GB2894041)
Improvements in or relating to apparatus for making a cellular cement product (GB298847)
Improvements in or relating to apparatus for making a spumous mass of cementitious material (GB297638 e GB300842)
An improved method of making a cellular cementitious product (GB300843)
HONORS
Hintonia Bullock 1935 (Rubiaceae)
Hintonella Ames 1938 (Orchidaceae)
Neohintonia King & Robinson 1971 (Asteraceae)
His son, James C. Hinton, Mexican entrepneur and novelist (Ciudad de Mexico 24 September 1915 – Galeana, Nuevo León State 23 July 2006)
Alone collected 2 new genera and 116 new plant species
HONORS
Jaimehintonia Turner 1993 (Amaryllidaceae)
Grandson of George Boole Hinton, George Sebastian Hinton, farmer and botanist (Monterrey 1949 –
Collected one genus and 34 new plant species
HONORS
Geohintonia Glass & Fitz Maurice 1991 (Cactaceae)
FAMILY GLOBAL OUTPUT (Taxa discovered by family)
Genera
Cremastopus P.G. Wilson (Cucurbitaceae),
Geohintonia Glass & Fitz Maurice (Cactaceae),
Hintonia Bullock (Rubiaceae),
Hintonella Ames (Orchidaceae),
Onocleopsis Ballard (Aspidiaceae)
Symplococarpon Airy-Shaw (Theaceae)
Species
621 species (460 valid)
Others
65 subspecies and varieties
