Mary Douglas Tindale

	Mary Douglas Tindale Mary Douglas Tindale (19 September 1920 – 31 March 2011) was an Australian botanist specialising in pteridology (ferns) and the genera '' Acacia'' and ''Glycine''. Tindale was born in Randwick, New South Wales, the only child of George Harold Tindale and Grace Matilda Tindale. She attended primary school in New York while her father served as British Ambassador to the United States. She returned to Sydney, Australia to attend high school at Abbotsleigh. Tindale earned a B.Sc. in Botany with Honours from Sydney University, as well as a master's degree from the same university. She became Assistant Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney in 1944 and later served as the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1949–1951. After completing her Doctor of Science, she was appointed the first principal research scientist at NSW Public Works NSW Public Works (or New South Wales Public Works), an agency of the Government of New South Wales, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Botanists With Author Abbreviations This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women. A Erik Acharius Julián Acuña Galé * Johann Friedrich Adam Carl Adolph Agardh Jacob Georg Agardh Nikolaus Ager William Aiton Frédéric-Louis Allamand Carlo Allioni Prospero Alpini Benjamin Alvord Adeline Ames Eliza Frances Andrews Agnes Arber Giovanni Arcangeli David Ashton William Guybon Atherstone Anna Atkins Daniel E. Atha * Armen Takhtajan B * Ernest Brown Babcock Churchill Babington Curt Backeberg James Eustace Bagnall Jacob Whitman Bailey * Liberty Hyde Bailey Ibn al-Baitar Giovanni Battista Balbis John Hutton Balfour Joseph Banks * César Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]