William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

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William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer , KCMG (born July 28, 1843 in Westminster , London , † December 23, 1928 in Witcombe , Gloucestershire ) was an English botanist . He was the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Dyer ".

Live and act

His father, William George Dyer, was a doctor in London. William Turner Thiselton-Dyer attended the King's College in London and went on to study mathematics at Christ Church College of Oxford University .

He was Professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and then from 1870 Professor of Botany at the Royal College of Science for Ireland in Dublin. In 1872 he became a professor at the Royal Horticultural Society in London. Thiselton-Dyer was also an Examiner in Botany at the University of London . At the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew he was Assistant Director from 1875 to 1885 and Director from 1885 to 1905. In this capacity he was also the editor of the first two supplementary volumes of the Index Kewensis .

Thiselton-Dyer was editor of the Flora capensis begun by William Henry Harvey and Otto Wilhelm Sonder from 1896 . From the Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver , he gave all the volumes 4-8 with the exception of six (2) out from 1897 to 1902.

In 1877 he married Harriet Ann Hooker (1854-1945), daughter of the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker .

Honors

Thiselton-Dyer was accepted in 1880 as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society . In 1887 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1882 he became Companion , and in 1899 Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George . He became a companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1892 . The Royal Society of New South Wales honored him in 1892 with the award of the Clarke Medal .

His father Joseph Dalton Hooker named in his honor, the plant genus Dyera Hook.f. from the family of the dog poison plants (Apocynaceae). The plant genera Dyerella F.Heim from the family of dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarpaceae), Dyerocycas Nakai from the family of Cycadaceae and Dyerophytum Kuntze of the family of plumbaginaceae (Plumbaginaceae) are named after him.

Fonts

  • Together with Henry Trimen . Flora of Middlesex: a topographical and historical account of the plants found in the county. With sketches of its Physical Geography and Climate, and of the progress of Middlesex botany during the last three centuries . Robert Hardwicke, London 1869 (digitized version)
  • William Henry Harvey , Otto Wilhelm Sonder , William T. Thiselton-Dyer: Flora capensis: being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (and neighboring territories) . v. 1-7. Kent etc., L. Reeve, 1894-.
  • The Folk Lore of Plants . 1883.
  • together with Benjamin Daydon Jackson , David Prain , Arthur William Hill , Edward James Salisbury : Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum: Supplementum Tertium Nomina et Synonyma Omnium Generum et Specierum AB Initio Anni MDCCCCI Usque AD Finem Anni MDCCCCV Complectens. Supplement 2, 1904

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dyer, William Turner Thiselton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Westminster (London)
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1928
Place of death Witcombe , Gloucestershire