William Bertram Turrill
William Bertram Turrill member of the Royal Society, OBE ( born June 14, 1890 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, † December 15, 1961 in Surrey ) was an English botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Turrill ".
Life
He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire born as a child of William Banbury and Thirza Mary (nee Homan ). Turrill attended until 1903, the Woodstock National School. 1903 to 1906 he attended the Oxford High School (now the City of Oxford High School). 1906-1908 Turrill was employed as a junior assistant at the Fielding Herbarium at the University of Oxford. On January 1, 1909 Turrill was given a provisional unit as a technical assistant at the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This Turrills began 49 years lasting attachment to Kew, which lasted with an interruption during his Abkommandierung in the Medical Corps ( Royal Army Medical Corps ) of the Thessaloniki Front from 1916 to 1918 to 30 September 1957. 1915 his assistants site was converted into a permanent position in 1946 Turrill remained until retirement curator of the herbarium and library of Kew. Turrills major work, his magnum opus was the The Plant Life of the Balkan peninsula which was released by the Claridon Press, Oxford, 1929. Turrill Thus, had expelled the leading expert on the Balkan flora. Besides his scientific work on the flora he was also a keen gardener. Since 1912 he worked at the renowned Curtis 's Botanical Magazine, whose editorial line he took over in 1948. In his work in the Botanical Magazine based Two of his awards, the Veitch Memorial Medal (1953) and the Victoria Medal of Honour (1956). The Number 173 was devoted entirely Turrill.
During the Second World War Turrill was put in charge of the herbarium and library of Kew and this spent itself in the New Bodleian Library in Oxford in safety.
Major work for Balkan flora
During the First World War Turrill was stationed in the Orient Corps of the English army in 1916 at the Thessaloniki Front, which he acquired a thorough knowledge of the flora of South Eastern Europe. Even after the end of World War Turrill yet returned back three times to the Balkans. Based on this knowledge he was able to supply an essential plant for vegetation of the Balkans. Turrills The Plant Life of the Balkan peninsula is particularly committed to the issues of biodiversity and endemism in the flora of the South-East European vegetation and was developed by the Turrill statistical innovations in ecosystem research and the first modern work of Florentino biodiversity of the Balkans. Turrills work, complementing the two descriptive volumes of the vegetation of the Balkans by Lujo Adamović and Günther Beck Mannagetta and Lerchenau in the published by Engler and Drude vegetation of the earth around the area of analytical Ecosystem Research also the first modern Flore work to their biodiversity. Turrills work, complementing the two descriptive volumes on the vegetation of the Balkans by Lujo Adamović ( The vegetation of the Balkan countries, 1909) and Günther Beck Mannagetta and Lerchenau ( The vegetation conditions of the Illyrian country, 1901) in the issued by Engler and Drude vegetation of the earth ( 1896-1928) to areas of analytical ecological research, and form tete with August von Hayek's detailed study of Flore inventory of Balkan Peninsula in Prodroums Florae peninsulae Balcanicae (1924-1933) an essential backbone of all modern regional floras. According Turrills are on the Balkan Peninsula 6570 species of higher plants distributed, of which 1754 (27%) are endemic. The power Turrills mandatory, the Fifth Balkan Botanical Congress was held in anbedacht of the eighty -year anniversary of "The Plant Life of the Balkan Peninsula ", 2009.
Awards
Turrill received in 1955 the Order of the British Empire and in 1958 the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society. In 1958 he also became a member of the Royal Society also because of his exceptional knowledge of the flora of the Middle East.
Family
Turrill was married to Florence Homan since 1918.