Edwin Percy Phillips
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Phillips attended the South African College
South African College
The South African College was an educational institution in Cape Town, South Africa, which developed into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools .-History:...
, which later became the University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...
, where he graduated under Prof. Henry Harold Welch Pearson
Henry Harold Welch Pearson
Henry Harold Welch Pearson , was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in 1913....
, obtaining a BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in 1903, an MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in 1908 and a DSc
DSC
-in academia:* D.Sc., Doctor of Science* Doctor of Surgical Chiropody, superseded in the 1960s by Doctor of Podiatric Medicine* Dalton State College, Georgia* Daytona State College, Florida* Deep Springs College, California* Dixie State College of Utah...
in 1915 for a treatise on the flora of the Leribe
Leribe District
Leribè is a district of Lesotho. It has an area of 2,828 km² and a population in 2006 of approximately 298,352. Hlotse is the capital or camptown of the district. The district has one additional town, namely Maputsoe and Matukeng.-Geography:...
Plateau in Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...
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He was the son of Ralph Edwards Phillips and Edith Minnie Crowder. He married Edith Isabel Dawson about 1912 and they had 2 daughters before her death c1948. He secondly married Susan Kriel c1949. Phillips named the genus Susanna
Susanna
Susanna is a feminine first name. It is not very common in the USA, and is found there predominantly among the American Jewish community. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible. It is often spelled Susannah, although Susanna is the original spelling...
belonging to the family Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
after her.
Timeline of career
- 1907 Herbarium assistant at South African Museum (Prof. PearsonHenry Harold Welch PearsonHenry Harold Welch Pearson , was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in 1913....
honorary curator) - 1910 Royal Botanic Gardens, KewRoyal Botanic Gardens, KewThe Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to as Kew Gardens, is 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England. "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" and the brand name "Kew" are also used as umbrella terms for the institution that runs...
- with Otto StapfOtto StapfOtto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist.Stapf trained in Vienna, moving to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920...
and John HutchinsonJohn Hutchinson (botanist)John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:...
described ProteaceaeProteaceaeProteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...
for Flora Capensis. - 1911 Curator of South African Museum Herbarium, succeeding Pearson who moved to the Bolus HerbariumBolus HerbariumThe Bolus Herbarium was established in 1865 from a donation by Harry Bolus of his extensive herbarium and library to the South African College, which later became the University of Cape Town....
- 1911 Joined Percy SladenPercy Sladen-Life and work:The son of a wealthy leather merchant, Sladen was born near Halifax, Yorkshire on 30 June 1849. He was educated at Hipperholme Grammar School and Marlborough College, but received no university training. As a young man he indulged his hobby of natural history, but soon become...
Memorial Expedition to the KamiesbergeKamiesbergeThe Kamiesberge , is a mountain range of jumbled granite inselbergs or bornhardts dotted over sandy plains and centered around Kamieskroon in Namaqualand in South Africa. In appearance the range is very like the Matopos of Zimbabwe... - 1913 Field work on Leribe Plateau in Lesotho published in Ann. S.Afr. Mus. 16:1-379(1917)
- 1918 Curator of National Herbarium, Pretoria
- 1926 Botanical Survey Memoir No. 10 - The Genera of South African Flowering Plants arranged according to Dalla TorreKarl Wilhelm von Dalla TorreKarl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre was an Austrian taxonomist, entomologist and botanist.Dalla Torre studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck. He then worked in the University as an entomologist and in 1895 became Professor of Zoology at the University of Innsbruck...
& HarmsHermann HarmsHermann August Theodor Harms was a German taxonomist and botanist. In 1938 he revised the pitcher plant genus Nepenthes, dividing it into three subgenera: Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes....
. - 1931 "South African Grasses"
- 1939 "The Weeds of South Africa"
- 1939-44 Chief of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, succeeding I. B. Pole-Evans
- 1944 Edited Christo Albertyn Smith and Estelle Van Hoepen's The Common Names of South African Plants
- 1951 Second edition of The Genera of South African Flowering Plants
Awards, honours and memberships
- Fellow of the Linnean Society of LondonLinnean Society of LondonThe Linnean Society of London is the world's premier society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. It publishes a zoological journal, as well as botanical and biological journals...
- Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
- Carnegie Travelling Scholarship to US and Canada in 1934
- Secretary SA Biological Society 1919-44, President in 1925, Senior Capt. Scott Medal
- Council of SA Association for the Advancement of Science, President in 1942
- SA Medal 1935
- Scientific Liaison Officer for the C.S.I.R. in Washington, DC 1946-48
- Secretary of Mountain Club of South AfricaMountain Club of South AfricaThe Mountain Club of South Africa is the largest and oldest mountaineering club in South Africa. It facilitates and engages in mountaineering, climbing of all types, bouldering, hiking, international expeditions, mountain search and rescue, training, conservation of mountain areas, and procurement...
- LeucadendronLeucadendronLeucadendron is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa, where they are a prominent part of the fynbos ecoregion and vegetation type.-Description:...
phillipsii Hutch.John Hutchinson (botanist)John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:... - AgathosmaAgathosmaAgathosma is a genus of about 135 species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, native to the southern part of Africa. Common names include Buchu, Boegoe, Bucco, Bookoo and Diosma. Buchu formally denotes two herbal species, prized for their fragrance and medicinal use...
phillipsii Dümmer - Vol. 25 of Flowering Plants of AfricaFlowering Plants of AfricaFlowering Plants of Africa is a series of illustrated botanical magazines akin to Curtis's Botanical Magazine, initiated as Flowering Plants of South Africa by I. B. Pole-Evans in 1920 and currently published by the South African National Biodiversity Institute in Pretoria...
dedicated to him - This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation E.Phillips when citingAuthor citation (botany)In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to citing the person who validly published a botanical name, i.e. who first published the name while fulfilling the formal requirements as specified by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature...
a botanical nameBotanical nameA botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants...
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Selected works
- A Contribution to the Knowledge of the South African Proteaceae - 1913
- Contributions to the Flora of South Africa - 1913
- Descriptions of New Plants from the Gift Berg collected by the Percy SladenPercy Sladen-Life and work:The son of a wealthy leather merchant, Sladen was born near Halifax, Yorkshire on 30 June 1849. He was educated at Hipperholme Grammar School and Marlborough College, but received no university training. As a young man he indulged his hobby of natural history, but soon become...
Memorial Expedition - 1913 - A list of the Phanerogams and Ferns collected by Mr. P.C. Keytel on the Island of Tristan da CunhaTristan da CunhaTristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America...
, 1908-1909 - 1913 - A note on the Flora of the Great Winterhoek Range (South African Journal of Science) - 1918
- A Preliminary List of the Known Poisonous Plants found in South Africa (Botanical Survey of South Africa. Memoir) - 1926
- An Introduction to the Study of the South African Grasses: With notes on their structure, distribution, cultivation, etc. (South African agricultural series) - 1931
- Life and Living: A story for children - 1933
- Civilization and our Biological Past
- Herbaria and Botanical Institutions in the United States of America and Canada: In relation to similar institutions in South Africa : report on a visit ... of the Carnegie Corporation of New York - 1935
- The Advancement of Science - 1943
- The Genera of South African Flowering Plants (Botanical Survey Memoir) - 1951