Dukinfield Henry Scott

Dukinfield Henry Scott ( born November 28, 1854 in London, † January 29, 1934 in Basingstoke ) was a British botanist and palaeobotanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " DHScott ".

Life

Scott was the son of the architect George Gilbert Scott. He studied at Oxford University and earned his doctorate under Julius von Sachs at the University of Würzburg in botany. From 1882 he was assistant professor of Botany at University College London and in 1885 assistant professor at Thomas Henry Huxley at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington. In 1892 he gave up the professorship and took up a position as Honorary Keeper in the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Garden at ( at the invitation of its director Thiselton - Dyer ), which he remained until 1906.

He also dealt with paleobotany, including through seed ferns (1904 ), whose relationship with seed plants he discovered Francis Wall Oliver. To Paläobotanik he was led by William Crawford Williamson, a pioneer of paleobotany in England and Professor in Manchester. From a course at University College on paleobotany, the Scott 1896/97 held, was in 1900 an influential textbook.

In 1894 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Medal in 1906 and he was awarded the Darwin Medal 1926. 1928 he received the Wollaston medal. 1908 to 1912 he was president of the Linnean Society, the Linnean Medal he received in 1921. Since 1916 he was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

He was editor of the Annals of Botany.

He was married in 1887 and had six children.