Robert Stephen Adamson

Robert Stephen Adamson
Born2 March 1885
Manchester, England
Died6 November 1965 (1965-11-07) (aged 80)
Jedburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Author abbrev. (botany)Adamson

Robert Stephen Adamson (2 March 1885 – 6 November 1965) was a British botanist. He was a fellow of Linnean Society (elected in 1956), the British Ecological Society and the Royal Society of South Africa and its President in 1946-1948.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Adamson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Adamson is commemorated in the specific epithet adamsonii.[3]

Works

  • On the ecology of the Ooldea district (1922)
  • The ecology of the eucalyptus forests of the Mount Lofty ranges (Adelaide district), South Australia (1924)
  • The Botanical features of the south western Cape Province: essays (1929)
  • A revision of the South African species of Juncus (1935)
  • The vegetation of South Africa (1938)[1]
  • Notes on the vegetation of the Kamiesberg (1938)
  • Flora of the Cape Peninsula (1950)[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Gunn, Mary; Codd, L. E. W. (1 June 1981). Botanical Exploration Southern Africa. CRC Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-86961-129-6.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Adamson.
  3. ^ Eggli, U.; Newton, L.E. (2004). Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 3. ISBN 978-3-540-00489-9. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Adamson, Robert Stephen (1885-1965)". plants.jstor.org.


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