Robert Stephen Adamson Explained

Robert Stephen Adamson
Birth Date:	2 March 1885
Birth Place:	Manchester, England
Nationality:	British
Death Place:	Jedburgh, Scotland
Field:	Botany
Work Institution:	University of Manchester
Author Abbrev Bot:	Adamson

Robert Stephen Adamson (2 March 1885 – 6 November 1965) was a British botanist. He was a fellow of Linnean Society (elected in 1956), the British Ecological Society and the Royal Society of South Africa and its President in 1946-1948.^[1]

Adamson is commemorated in the specific epithet adamsonii.^[2]

Works

• On the ecology of the Ooldea district (1922)
• The ecology of the eucalyptus forests of the Mount Lofty ranges (Adelaide district), South Australia (1924)
• The Botanical features of the south western Cape Province: essays (1929)
• A revision of the South African species of Juncus (1935)
• The vegetation of South Africa (1938)
• Notes on the vegetation of the Kamiesberg (1938)
• Flora of the Cape Peninsula (1950)^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Gunn. Mary. Botanical Exploration Southern Africa. Codd. L. E. W.. 1981-06-01. CRC Press. 978-0-86961-129-6. 78. en.
2. Book: Eggli. U.. Newton. L.E.. Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2004. 978-3-540-00489-9. 25 September 2018. 3.
3. Web site: Adamson, Robert Stephen (1885-1965) . plants.jstor.org.