< Back to the Object

Edit History
Adamson, Robert Stephen (1885-1965)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Robert Stephen
Last name
Adamson
Initials
R.S.
Life Dates
1885 - 1965
Collecting Dates
1897 - 1957
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), BOL, CGE, CT (currently BOL), K, MANCH, NBG, NMW, OXF, P, PRE, RAMM, SAM
Countries
Australasia: AustraliaEurope: France, Ireland, United KingdomSouthern Africa: South Africa
Associate(s)
Acocks, John Phillip Harison (1911-1979) (student)
Bower, Frederick Orpen (1855-1948) (correspondent)
Salter, Terence Macleane (1883-1969) (co-author)
Biography
English botanist from Manchester who was a lecturer in botany at Manchester University (1912-1922) before sailing to Australia (1922), then moving to South Africa where he was appointed Professor of Botany at the University of Cape Town (1923-1950). Adamson published on the vegetation of South Africa and wrote a flora of the Cape area, eventually retiring to Scotland in 1955.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 18; Desmond, R., Dict. Brit. Irish Bot. Hortic., ed. 2 (1994): 5; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 77; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 10; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 79; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 27; Smith, G.F. & Willis, C.K., Index Herb. S. Afr., ed. 2 (1999): 84, 148;
Adamson, Robert Stephen (1885-1965)
PDF

Related Materials