Ronald Good
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Ronald D'Oyley Good | |
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Born | Dorchester, Dorset, England | 5 March 1896
Died | 11 December 1992 Kingston upon Hull, England | (aged 96)
Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
Occupation | botanist |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Institutions | University of Hull |
Doctoral students | Eva Crackles |
Ronald 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
The standard author abbreviation R.D.Good is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
- Plants and Human Economics (1933)
- The Old Roads of Dorset (1940)
- 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)
- The Last Villages of Dorset (1979)
- The Philosophy of Evolution (1981)
- Concise Flora of Dorset (1984)
References
- ^ "Obituary: Professor Ronald Good". The Independent.
- ^ Moreira-Munoz, Andres. (2011). Plant Geography of Chile. Springer. p. 135. ISBN 978-90-481-8747-8 "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."
- ^ International Plant Names Index. R.D.Good.
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