Dukinfield Henry Scott

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Dukinfield Henry Scott

Dukinfield Henry Scott (born November 28, 1854 in London , † January 29, 1934 in Basingstoke ) was a British botanist and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " DHScott ".

Life

Scott was the son of the architect George Gilbert Scott . He studied at the University of Oxford and received his doctorate in botany under Julius von Sachs at the University of Würzburg . From 1882 he was Assistant Professor of Botany at University College London and from 1885 Assistant Professor to Thomas Henry Huxley at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington . In 1892 he gave up this professorship and took a position as Honorary Keeper in the Jodrell Laboratory of the Royal Botanic Garden (at the invitation of its director Thiselton-Dyer ), which he stayed until 1906.

He also dealt with palaeobotany , including seed ferns (1904), whose relationship with seed plants he discovered with Francis Wall Oliver (1864-1951). On paleobotany he was led by William Crawford Williamson , a pioneer of paleobotany in England and a professor in Manchester. An influential textbook emerged from a course at University College on paleobotany that Scott gave in 1896/97.

In 1894 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Royal Medal he received in 1906 and the Darwin Medal in 1926. In 1928 he received the Wollaston Medal . 1908 to 1912 he was President of the Linnean Society , whose Linnean Medal he received in 1921. In 1910 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Since 1916 he was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and since 1925 a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences . In 1930 he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1932 a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

He was editor of the Annals of Botany .

He had been married since 1887 and had six children.

literature

  • Obituary by FW Oliver, Annals of Botany . Volume 49, 1935, and The Phytologists . Volume 33, pdf

Fonts

  • Studies in Fossil Botany . 2 volumes, 3rd edition, London 1920, 1923 (first 1900)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver, Scott: On the structure of the Palaeozoic seed Lagenostoma Lomaxi, with a statement of the evidence upon which it is referred to Lyginodendron , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 197 1904, pp. 193-247
  2. ^ Frank Oliver, 1864–1951, professor at University College and in Cairo. Fellow of the Royal Society.
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 28, 2020 (French).
  4. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 6, 2020 .
  5. ^ Members of the previous academies. Dukinfield Henry Scott. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 15, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Dukinfield Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1934
Place of death Basingstoke