Person

Scott, George Anderson Macdonald (1933 - 1998)

Born
10 March 1933
Glasgow, Scotland
Died
23 March 1998
New Zealand
Occupation
Botanist and Bryologist

Summary

George Anderson M. Scott was the foremost authority on temperate Australian mosses and liverworts. He was Reader in Botany at Monash University and a master of Queen's College at the University of Melbourne. His main area of expertise was the plant group known as Bryophytes, which includes mosses and liverworts. Scott donated his highly prized specimen collections to the National Herbarium in Melbourne. He also made major contributions to the general field of botany and was a member of the Linnean Society. In 1996 Scott deposited his collection of over 4,500 specimens of Australian bryophytes in the Herbarium of the Department of Botany at the University of Melbourne.

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Chronology

1959
Education - Graduated with a gold medal in Botany at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
1961
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at University College of North Wales
1961 - 1962
Career position - Assistant Lecturer in Botany at the University of Otago, New Zealand
1962 - 1969
Career position - Lecturer then Senior Lecturer (1969) in Botany at the University of Otago
1970 - 1973
Career position - Senior Research Fellow at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria
1973 - 1983
Career position - Senior Lecturer in Botany at Monash University
1976
Career position - Moses of Southern Australia (co-authored with I. Stone) published
1976
Career position - Research Fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, UK
1978
Career position - Member of the Bryophyte Committee of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy
1978 - 1981
Career position - President, Ecological Society of Australia
1983
Career position - Research Fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge
1984 - 1986
Career position - Reader in Botany at Monash University
1985
Career position - The South Australian Liverworts published
1986 - 1992
Career position - Master of Queen's College at the University of Melbourne
1990
Education - DSc, University of Melbourne

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Published resources

Books

  • Scott, George A. M.; and Stone, Ilma G.: illustrations by Rosser, Celia, The Mosses of Southern Australia (London: New York: Academic Press, 1976), 495 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Brown, Gillian, 'Mosses, liverworts and hornworts: significant bryophyte collections at the University of Melbourne Herbarium', University of Melbourne Collections, 8 (2011), -7. Details
  • Dalton, P. J. (editor), ' A special issue in honour of Ilma Grace Stone to commemorate the occasion of her 80th birthday', Australasian bryological newsletter 29:1-8, 29, 1-8. https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/766457/ABN_29.pdf. Details
  • Dalton, Paddy, 'A tribute - George Anderson Macdonald Scott 10 March 1933 - 23 March 1998', Australasian bryological newsletter, 38 (1998), 1-6. Details
  • Scott, G. A. M. [and others], 'A special issue in honour of Ilma Grace Stone to commemorate the occasion of her 80th birthday', Australasian bryological newsletter, 29 (1993), 1-8. Details
  • Stone, Ilma G.; Bell, Graham; and Scott, George A. M., 'Recollections and a tribute to Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, 31 May 1907 - 1 June 1994', Australasian bryological newsletter, 31 (1994), 7-11. https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/766459/ABN_31.pdf. Details
  • Watson, E. V., 'George Anderson Macdonald Scott B.Sc., Ph.D., B.A., D.Sc., F.L.S. (1933-1998)', Journal of Bryology, 21 (2) (1999), 165-6. Details

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