David Frederick Cutler PPLS (born 1939) is an English

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 wo ...

and plant anatomist.

Life

David Cutler was born in 1939. He was educated at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, BSc (Hons) 1962, and

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, PhD 1965. Cutler worked as a plant anatomist at the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 ...

from 1962. He retired in 1999 as Deputy Keeper and Head of the Plant Anatomy Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Kew. Cutler edited the journal 'Annals of Botany', between 1984 and 199

He currently holds the positions of Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, visiting Professor in Botany at the University of Reading and Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College, London. Cutler was president of the

Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

(2006–2009), and president of the Kew Guild (2003–2004). He was awarded the Linnean Gold Medal in 1999, for outstanding services to the Linnean Society. Until 2020 he was the chairman of the 'Taxonomy and Systematics Committee' and 'Secretary for Strategy' of the Linnean Society.Annual Review 2017, Linnean Society, pp. 32, 34 His research interests are in pure and applied plant anatomy, including the systematic anatomy of angiosperms, functional aspects of plant structure and the identification of fragmentary plant material.

Selected publications

* Cutler, D.F., Botha, E. & Stevenson, D.W. (2008) ''Plant Anatomy. An Applied approach'', Blackwell Publishing * Gregory, M. & Cutler, D. F. (eds) (2002) ''Anatomy of the Monocotyledons IX Acoraceae and Araceae'', Oxford Science Publications. * Fahn, A. & Cutler, D. F. (1992) ''Xerophytes. Encyclopedia of Plant Anatomy'', vol. XIII.3. Gebruder Borntraeger. * Cutler, D. F. & Richardson, I. B. K. (1989) ''Tree Roots and Buildings'', 2nd Edition, revised, reference book. Longman Scientific and Technical.

References

Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Presidents of the Linnean Society of London Living people 1939 births British botanists {{UK-med-bio-stub