Alfred James Ewart

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Alfred James Ewart (born February 12, 1872 in Toxteth Park , Liverpool , † September 12, 1937 in East Malvern , Melbourne ) was a British-Australian botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Ewart ".

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Ewart studied in Liverpool and received his doctorate in 1896 from the University of Leipzig under Wilhelm Pfeffer . He was a demonstrator in botany at Liverpool University. With his 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, he then went on a research trip to Ceylon and Java (Botanical Garden in Bogor ) and received his doctorate again in London (D.Sc.) after his return in 1897, and was Deputy Professor of Botany at what later became the University of Birmingham (Mason College ) and then spent a few years at Oxford University. From 1902 he taught natural sciences (as a Science Master) at the King Edward's School in Birmingham and from 1904 at the University of Birmingham (as a lecturer in botany) and in 1906 became professor of botany at the University of Melbourne (the first professor of botany in Australia) . In addition to his extensive teaching duties, he was initially Victoria State Botanist for many years. In 1910 he received a D.Sc. in Oxford. He built up the Faculty of Botany from humble beginnings and in 1929 managed to move to his own institute building.

Initially he dealt with plant physiology. He published a translation of the textbook on plant physiology by Wilhelm Pfeffer (Clarendon Press, Oxford) and an introductory textbook on botany from 1900 to 1906. In Australia, he also studied taxonomy and became a leading expert on the flora of Victoria.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was President of the Biology Section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science when it met in Melbourne in 1921 and of the Botany Section at its meeting in Perth in 1926.

He was married twice. From his first marriage to the violinist and composer Florence Maud Donaldson (marriage in 1898) he had two sons. In 1931 he married Elizabeth Bilton.

Honors

The plant genera Ewartia Beauverd and Ewartiothamnus Anderb. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and some plant species are named after him.

Fonts

  • First Stage Botany , 1900
  • New Matriculation Botany , 1902 (reissues as Ewart's Elementary Botany )
  • On the Physics and Physiology of Protoplasmic Streaming in Plants , Oxford 1903 * Rural Calendar, 1905
  • with James Richard Tovey: The Weeds, Poison Plants and Naturalized Aliens of Victoria , 1909
  • with Olive B. Davies: The Flora of the Northern Territory , 1917
  • with others: Flora of Victoria , Melbourne University Press 1930
  • Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters , 1925

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Ewart, Alfred James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ewart (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Toxteth Park , Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1937
Place of death East Malvern , Melbourne