P. L. Simmonds

Peter Lund Simmonds (1814–1897) was a Danish-born British journalist and writer on trade, colonial produce and economic botany. Brought to England as a child, he made his career in London, where he founded and edited journals on colonial affairs and applied science. He wrote extensively on the commercial uses of plants and animals in books such as The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances and The Animal Resources of Different Nations, and he took an active part in the colonial sections of several international exhibitions.