Killick, Donald Joseph Boomer (1926-)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Donald Joseph Boomer
Last name
Killick
Initials
D.J.B.
Life Dates
1926 -
Collecting Dates
1950 - 1969
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
NU (main), PRE (main), BM, CPF, EA, GRA, K, M, NH, P, ROML, SRGH, WIND
Countries
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa
Associate(s)
Johnstone, Douglas (Das) Ian (fl. 1945-1951) (co-collector)
Leistner, Otto Albrecht (1931-) (co-collector)
Marais, Wessel (1929-) (co-collector)
Strey, Rudolf Georg (1907-1988) (co-collector)
Vahrmeijer, Johannes (1942-) (co-collector)
Ward, Cecil James (1926-) (co-collector)
Biography
South African botanist from Pietermarirzburg who trained at the University of Natal (1945-1950) where he gained an MSc (1950) and PhD (1962) based on his study of plant ecology of the Cathedral Peak area of the Natal Drakensberg. He joined the Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria (1950) where he was later promoted to Assistant Director (1971) and Deputy Director (1973). During this period he was partly based in England as South African Liaison Officer at Kew (1954-1957, 1969-1971). Killick was elected president of the South African Biological Societry (1966) and to the International Committe for Spermatophyta (1975). Carex killickii Nelmes and Festuca killickii Kenn.-O'Byrne are named in his honour.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 325; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 358, 428; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 207; Smith, G.F. & Willis, C.K., Index Herb. S. Afr., ed. 2 (1999): 74, 106, 107, 111, 113;
Killick, Donald Joseph Boomer (1926-)
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