Thomas Gaskell Tutin

Thomas Gaskell Tutin (born April 21, 1906 in Kew (Surrey) , United Kingdom , † October 7, 1987 ) was a British botanist. He was a specialist in the taxonomy of higher plants , but also worked on algae . Its official botanical abbreviation is " Tutin ".

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Tutin enjoyed his education in Bristol and Cambridge. He was inspired to botany by Humphrey Gilbert-Casing, who was director of the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge from 1921 to 1950. Tutin studied in Cambridge from 1927 to 1931. At the Cambridge Natural History Society he met various colleagues, including Edmund Frederic Warburg (1908-1966). They studied the flora of England, collected numerous plants and also made excursions to Madeira and the Azores . Tutin's particular interest was in the genus Carex and grasses .

From 1933 to 1937 he worked at the Marine Biological Station Plymouth and studied the genus Zostera . In 1937 he took part in an expedition that examined the algae of Lake Titicaca . In 1938 he collected plants in Peru and Bolivia. He received his master's degree in Manchester in 1939. From 1939 to 1944 he worked in Manchester. He was Professor of Botany at Leicester University from 1947 to 1973.

Works

In 1947, together with Arthur Clapham and Warburg, he received the honorable commission to write a new Flora of the British Isles. The last - from the pen of Sir Joseph Hooker (1817–1911) - came from 1870. This Flora appeared in 1952 and in further editions in 1962 and 1987. His most important work, however, was Flora Europaea , which was initially published from 1964 to 1983 . This idea of composing a flora of all of Europe was born among a number of British botanists at the International Congress of Botanists in Paris in 1954. In addition to Tutin and Warburg, they included Vernon Hilton Heywood (born 1927), David Henriques Valentine (1912–1987), David Allardice Webb (1912–1994) and others. The great work came out in five volumes, all of which appeared four years apart. It was an important step forward in mapping the flora of Europe and the Mediterranean. It was published from 1964 to 1980, printed by Cambridge University Press.

literature

Anthony David Bradshaw: Thomas Gaskell Tutin, April 21, 1908 - October 7, 1987 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . Volume 38, 1992, pp. 360-375, JSTOR .
Frans Antonie Stafleu , Richard Sumner Cowan : Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second edition. Volume VI: Sti – Vuy . In: Regnum Vegetabile . tape 115 . Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht 1986, ISBN 90-313-0714-9 , pp. 556-557 ( online ).

Individual evidence

^ TG Tutin, Vernon Hilton Heywood (ed.): Flora Europaea. 5 volumes. Cambridge University Press, Oxford 1964-1983.
^ TG Tutin et al .: A short history of the Flora Europaea project. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20108-X , pp. XVII – XX (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

personal data
SURNAME	Tutin, Thomas Gaskell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kew (Surrey) , England
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1987

[1] TG Tutin, Vernon Hilton Heywood (ed.): Flora Europaea. 5 volumes. Cambridge University Press, Oxford 1964-1983.

[Vol5-2] TG Tutin et al .: A short history of the Flora Europaea project. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20108-X , pp. XVII – XX (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).