Ronald Good Explained

Ronald D'Oyley Good
Birth Date:	1896 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	Dorchester, Dorset, England
Death Place:	Kingston upon Hull, England
Fields:	Botany
Alma Mater:	Downing College, Cambridge
Work Institutions:	University of Hull
Occupation:	botanist
Doctoral Students:	Eva Crackles

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/186219#page/10/mode/1upRonald D'Oyley Good (5 March 1896  - 11 December 1992) was a British botanist notable for his floristic regionalization.

Good was born in Dorchester. He studied botany at Downing College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA and Sc.D. He worked at the Botany Department of the Natural history museum (1922–1928). He worked at the Botany Department at the University of Hull from 1928 until his retirement in 1959. He was the author of The Geography of the Flowering Plants (1947) a popular work in botany.^{[1] [2]}

Publications

• Plants and Human Economics (1933)
• The Old Roads of Dorset (1940); Book: 1966 new, enlarged edition. 0950326119.
• A Geographical Handbook of the Dorset Flora (1948)
• The Geography of the Flowering Plants (1947; 2nd ed. 1953, 3rd ed. 1964, 4th ed. 1974)
• Features of Evolution in Flowering Plants (1956)^[3]
• The Lost Villages of Dorset (1979)
• The Philosophy of Evolution (1981)
• Concise Flora of Dorset (1984)

Notes and References

1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-ronald-good-1564201.html "Obituary: Professor Ronald Good"
2. Moreira-Munoz, Andres. (2011). Plant Geography of Chile. Springer. p. 135. "The English botanist Ronald Good (1896–1992) published the first edition of The Geography of the Flowering Plants in 1947. The work became one of the most popular books in the field, reaching four editions and two reprints between 1947 and 1974."
3. Bole, P. V.. review of Features of Evolution in Flowering Plants by Ronald Good. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 54. 1–2. 442–443.