William Bertram Turrill

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William Bertram Turrill member of the Royal Society , OBE (born June 14, 1890 in Woodstock , Oxfordshire , † December 15, 1961 in Surrey ) was an English botanist. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Turrill ".

Life

Turrill's mathematical classification of leaf shapes
Illustration of the Royal Botanical Garden increased in 1929 collected from Yugoslavia seeds of William Bertram Turrill and formerly to Aquilegia grata asked Aquilegia nikolicii . Curtis's Magazine, 1935, plate 9405

He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire to William Banbury and Thirza Mary (nee Homan). Turrill attended Woodstock National School until 1903. From 1903 to 1906 he attended Oxford High School (now the City of Oxford High School). 1906-1908 Turrill was employed as a junior assistant at the Fielding Herbarium at the University of Oxford. On January 1, 1909, Turrill got a temporary position as a technical assistant at the herbarium in the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew . This began Turrill's 49-year bond with Kew, which lasted until September 30, 1957 with interruptions during his assignment to the Medical Corps (Royal Army Medical Corps) of the Salonika Front 1916-1918. In 1915 his assistant position was converted into a permanent position, in 1946 Turrill remained curator of the herbarium and the library of Kew until he retired. Turrill's main work, his magnum opus, remained The Plant-Life of the Balkan peninsula, which was published by Claridon Press in Oxford in 1929. With that, Turrill had proven himself to be the leading expert on the Balkan flora. In addition to his scientific work on flora, he was also a passionate gardener. From 1912 he worked at the renowned Curtis's Botanical Magazine, whose editorial management he took over in 1948. Two of his awards are based on his work in Botanical Magazine, the Veitch Memorial Medal (1953) and the Victoria Medal of Honor (1956). Issue 173 was entirely dedicated to Turrill.

During the Second World War, Turrill was transferred to the management of the herbarium and the library of Kew and this was brought to safety in the New Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Major work on the Balkan flora

During the First World War, Turrill was stationed in the Orient Corps of the English Army on the Salonika Front from 1916 , which enabled him to acquire a sound knowledge of the flora of Southeast Europe. Even after the end of the First World War, Turrill returned three times to the Balkans. Based on this knowledge he was able to provide an essential work on the vegetation of the Balkans. Turrill's The Plant-Life of the Balkan peninsula is particularly committed to the issues of biodiversity and endemism in the flora of Southeastern European vegetation and, with the statistical innovations in ecosystem research developed by Turrill, was also the first modern flora work on the biodiversity of the Balkans. Turrill's work thus supplemented the two descriptive volumes of the vegetation of the Balkans by Lujo Adamović and Günther Beck von Mannagetta and Lerchenau in the vegetation of the earth published by Engler and Drude to include the field of analytical ecosystem research and also the first modern flora work on their biodiversity. Turrill's work thus supplemented the two descriptive volumes on the vegetation of the Balkans by Lujo Adamović ( Die Vegetation der Balkanländer , 1909) and Günther Beck von Mannagetta and Lerchenau ( The vegetation conditions of the Illyrian countries , 1901) in the Vegetation of the Earth published by Engler and Drude ( 1896–1928) to areas of analytical ecological research, and formed with August von Hayek's detailed study of the flora inventory of the Balkan Peninsula in the Prodroums Florae Peninsulae Balcanicae (1924–1933) an essential backbone of all modern regional flora works. According to Turrill, 6570 species of higher plants are distributed in the Balkan Peninsula, of which 1754 (27%) are endemic. Obliging the performance of Turrill, the fifth Balkan Botanical Congress was held in 2009 to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of "The Plant Life of the Balkan Peninsula".

Awards

Turrill received the Order of the British Empire in 1955 and the Linnean Society gold medal in 1958 . In 1958 he also became a member of the Royal Society due to his exceptional knowledge of the flora of the Middle East. The plant genus Turrillia A.C.Sm. is named after Turrill. from the family of the silver tree plants (Proteaceae).

family

Turrill was married to Florence Homan since 1918.

Fonts

  • 1929 . The Plant-life of the Balkan Peninsula .
  • 1980 . Studies in the genus Fritillaria (Liliaceae) (Hooker's Icones plantarum) . Ed. Bentham-Moxon Trust. 280 pp.
  • 1948 . British plant life . Ed. Collins. 315 pp. New edition 2008 , 336 pp. ISBN 000727856X .
  • 1964 . Vistas in botany: recent researches in plant taxonomy (International series of monographs on pure and applied biology) . Ed. Pergamon Press. 314 pp.
  • 1963 . Joseph Dalton Hooker: Botanist, explorer, & administrator . Ed. Scientific Book Club. 228 pp.
  • 1959 . The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, past & present . Ed. Jenkins. 256 pp.
  • 1959 . Vistas in Botany: Twenty Arts. & Reviews v. 1 . Ed. Elsevier. 547 pp.
  • 1956 . Caryophyllaceae (Flora of tropical East Africa) . Ed. Secr. State for the Colonies × the Crown Agents for Oversea Gov. 38 pp.
  • 1953 . Pioneer plant geography: The phytogeographical researches of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (Lotsya, a biological miscellany) . Ed. Nijhoff. 267 pp.
  • 1952 . Oleaceae (Flora of tropical East Africa) . Ed. Secr. State for the Colonies × the Crown Agents for Oversea Gov. 32 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ page at wku.edu
  2. ^ CE Hubbard 1971: William Bertram Turrill. 1890-1961 In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 17 (Nov., 1971), pp. 688-712, The Royal PDF .
  3. ^ CE Hubbard 1971: ibid. P. 691
  4. ^ CE Hubbard 1971: ibid. P. 691
  5. ^ William Bertram Turrill, 1929: The Plant-Life of the Balkan peninsula . Oxford, S. XIV.
  6. ↑ Vladimir Stevanović , 2009: Exploration of Balkan Flora after Turrill's time - the current situation and future challenges . P9. in V. Stevanović (ed.) 5th Balkan Botanical Congress: Book of Abstracts. Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  7. ↑ Vladimir Stevanović, 2009: ibid. P. 9.
  8. ↑ Vladimir Stevanović, 2009: ibid. P. 9.
  9. ↑ Program of the 5th Balkan Botanical Congress, SANU September 7-11, 2009 PDF ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sanu.ac.rs
  10. ↑ entry on Turrill; William Bertram (1890-1961) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  11. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Turrill, William Bertram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodstock , Oxfordshire
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1961
Place of death Surrey