Tom Tutin

Thomas Gaskell Tutin (* April 21 1906 in Kew ( Surrey ) in England; † 7 October 1987) was a British botanist. He was a specialist in the taxonomy of higher plants, but also worked on algae. Its official botanical abbreviation is Tutin.

Curriculum vitae

Tutin enjoyed his training in Bristol and Cambridge. Inspired botany he was Humphrey Gilbert Casing, who was from 1921 to 1950 director of the Botanic Garden in Cambridge. Tutin studied at Cambridge from 1927 until 1931. During the Cambridge Natural History Society, he met several colleagues know, including Edmund Frederic Warburg ( 1908-1966 ). They studied the flora of England, collected numerous plants and also made ​​field trips to Madeira and the Azores. Tutins special interest was the genus Carex and grasses.

From 1933 to 1937 he worked at the Marine Biological Station Plymouth and examined the genus Zostera. In 1937 he took part in an expedition that investigated the algae of Lake Titicaca. In 1938, he collected plants in Peru and Bolivia. He received his master's degree in 1939 in Manchester. From 1939 to 1944 he worked in Manchester. He was a professor of botany at Leicester University in 1947 to 1973.

Works

In 1947 he got together with Arthur Clapham and Warburg the honorable task of writing a new flora of the British Isles. The last - from the pen of Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) - was born in 1870 This flora was published in 1952 and in subsequent editions in 1962 and 1987, his most important work, however, was the Flora Europaea. .. This idea of writing a flora of the whole of Europe, was developed under a number of British botanists to the International botanist Congress in Paris in 1954. Among them was out of Tutin and Warburg nor Vernon Hilton Heywood ( born 1927 ), David Henriques Valentine ( 1912-1987 ), David Allardice Webb ( 1912-1994 ) and others. The great work came out in five volumes, all of which are published every four years. It was an important advance for the detection of the Flora of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. It appeared in the years 1964 to 1980, printed by Cambridge University Press.