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[[File:Alexander Segger George.jpg|thumb|In the banksia garden in the [[ANBG]]]] |
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'''Alexander Segger George''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 4 April 1939) is |
'''Alexander Segger George''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 4 April 1939) is an Australian botanist. He is an authority on the plant [[genus|genera]] ''[[Banksia]]'' and ''[[Dryandra]]''. The "bizarre" [[Restionaceae]] genus ''[[Alexgeorgea]]'' was named in his honour in 1976. |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Alex Segger George was born in Western Australia on 4 April 1939.<ref name="ANBG">{{cite web |title=George, Alexander S. (1939 - ) |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/george-alex.html |publisher=Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria | |
Alex Segger George was born in Western Australia on 4 April 1939.<ref name="ANBG">{{cite web |title=George, Alexander S. (1939 - ) |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/george-alex.html |publisher=Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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George joined the [[Western Australian Herbarium]] as a laboratory assistant at the age of |
George joined the [[Western Australian Herbarium]] as a laboratory assistant at the age of 20 in 1959. He worked under [[Charles Gardner (botanist)|Charles Gardner]] for a year before the latter's retirement, and partly credits him with rekindling an interest in banksias. In 1963 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, and the following year added a botany [[academic major|major]]. Continuing at the Western Australian Herbarium as a botanist, in 1968 he was seconded as [[Australian Botanical Liaison Officer]] at the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|Royal Botanic Gardens]] in London. George also has an interest in history, especially historical biography of naturalists in Western Australia. He has published a number of articles in the field of history, including a history of the [[Royal Society of Western Australia]] and a tribute to naturalist and historian [[Rica Erickson]]. In 1999 he published a book on [[William Dampier]]'s naturalist collections in Western Australia entitled ''William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian''.<ref name="NLA">{{cite book |last1=George |first1=A.S |title=William Dampier in New Holland : Australia's first natural historian |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1548097 |via=National Library of Australia |year=1999 |publisher=Bloomings Books |isbn=9781876473129 |access-date=22 January 2023}}</ref> |
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George initially specialised in |
George initially specialised in orchids, but his focus gradually moved to the [[Proteaceae]] genera ''Banksia'' and ''Dryandra'' and later ''[[Synaphea]]''. He contributed the text to [[Celia Rosser]]'s three volume ''[[The Banksias]]'', published between 1981 and 2001, which contains Rosser's paintings of every ''Banksia'' species. In 1981 ''[[Nuytsia (journal)|Nuytsia]]'' published his landmark monograph "[[The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)|The genus ''Banksia'' L.f. (Proteaceae)]]", the first systematic treatment of the taxonomy of ''Banksia'' since [[George Bentham]]'s ''[[Flora Australiensis]]'' appeared in the 1870s. Three years later he published the popular ''The Banksia Book'', and the following year he published ''An Introduction to the Proteaceae of Western Australia''. In 1999, his taxonomy of the ''Banksia'' and ''Dryandra'' genera was published as part of the ''[[Flora of Australia (series)|Flora of Australia]] series of monographs.<ref name="ABRS">{{cite web |last1=George |first1=A.S |title=Flora of Australia |url=https://www.dcceew.gov.au/science-research/abrs/publications/flora-of-australia |website=ABRS publications |publisher=Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |access-date=22 January 2023}}</ref> |
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From 1981 to 1993, George lived in [[Canberra]] and worked as Executive Editor for the ''Flora of Australia'' series. His extensive revision of the genus ''[[Verticordia]]'', an arrangement which included new taxa, was published in ''Nuytsia'' in 1991. He is now living in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] again, and works as a botanical and editorial consultant. He is also an Honorary Research Associate with the Western Australian Herbarium, and an Adjunct Associate Professor with the |
From 1981 to 1993, George lived in [[Canberra]] and worked as Executive Editor for the ''Flora of Australia'' series. His extensive revision of the genus ''[[Verticordia]]'', an arrangement which included new taxa, was published in ''Nuytsia'' in 1991. He is now living in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] again, and works as a botanical and editorial consultant. He is also an Honorary Research Associate with the Western Australian Herbarium, and an Adjunct Associate Professor with the College of Science, [[Murdoch University]]. |
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==Honours== |
==Honours== |
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On 11 June 2012, |
In 2004 George received the Nancy T. Burbidge Medal from the [[Australasian Systematic Botany Society]],{{R|ASBS|EASI}} and an honorary Doctor of Science from Murdoch University in 2009.{{cn|date=January 2024}} On 11 June 2012, he was named a Member of the [[Order of Australia]] for "service to conservation and the environment as a botanist, historian and author, particularly in the area of Australian flora, and through roles with national and international professional organisations."<ref>{{cite web|title=Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia - The Queen's Birthday 2012 Honours Lists |url=http://www.gg.gov.au/res/file/2012/honours/qb2012/Media%20Notes%20AM%20(A-L)%20(final)(1).pdf |publisher=[[Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia]] |page=[http://www.gg.gov.au/res/file/2012/honours/qb2012/Media%20Notes%20AM%20(A–L)%20(final)(1).pdf#page=41 93] |date=30 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619094909/http://www.gg.gov.au/res/file/2012/honours/qb2012/Media%20Notes%20AM%20%28A-L%29%20%28final%29%281%29.pdf |archive-date=19 June 2012 }}</ref> |
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The genera ''[[Alexgeorgea]]'' and ''[[Georgeantha]]'', and species ''[[Buellia georgei]]'' are named in his honour.<ref name="Trinkaus et al. 2001">{{cite journal |last1=Trinkaus |first1=Ulrike |last2=Mayrhofer |first2=Helmut |last3=Elix |first3=John A. |title=Revision of the ''Buellia epigaea''-group (lichenized ascomycetes, Physciaceae) 2. The species in Australia |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=33 |issue=1 |year=2001 |pages=47–62 |doi=10.1006/lich.2000.0286|s2cid=86761658 }}</ref> |
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==Selected publications== |
==Selected publications== |
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* ''Orchids of Western Australia'' (1969)<ref>{{Citation | author1=George, Alex S. (Alexander Segger) | author2=Foote, Herb E | title=Orchids of Western Australia | year=1971 | publication-date=1971 | publisher=Westviews Pty Ltd | isbn=978-0-9599547-0-8}}</ref> |
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* ''Orchids of Western Australia'' (1969) |
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* ''A New Eucalypt from Western Australia'' (1970) |
* ''A New Eucalypt from Western Australia'' (1970) |
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* ''A List of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia'' (1971) |
* ''A List of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia'' (1971) |
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* ''The Banksias'' (1981–2002, with [[Celia Rosser]]) |
* ''The Banksias'' (1981–2002, with [[Celia Rosser]]) |
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* ''The Banksia Book'' (1984) |
* ''The Banksia Book'' (1984) |
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* ''An Introduction to the Proteaceae of Western Australia'' ( |
* ''An Introduction to the Proteaceae of Western Australia'' (1984) |
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* "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)." ''[[Nuytsia (journal)|Nuytsia]]'' (1991) |
* "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)." ''[[Nuytsia (journal)|Nuytsia]]'' (1991) |
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* ''Notes on Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)'' (1996) |
* ''Notes on Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)'' (1996) |
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* ''Banksia'' in ''Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra'' (1999) |
* ''Banksia'' in ''Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra'' (1999) |
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* ''Dryandra'' in ''Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra'' (1999) |
* ''Dryandra'' in ''Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra'' (1999) |
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* ''William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian'' |
* ''William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian'' (1999)<ref>{{Citation | author1=George, Alexander S | author2=George, Alex S | title=William Dampier in New Holland : Australia's first natural historian | year=1999 | publication-date=1999 | publisher=Bloomings Books | isbn=978-1-876473-12-9}}</ref> |
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* ''The Long Dry: Bush Colours of Summer and Autumn in South-Western Australia |
* ''The Long Dry: Bush Colours of Summer and Autumn in South-Western Australia'' (2002)<ref>{{Citation | author1=George, Alexander S | author2=George, Alex | title=The long dry : bush colours of summer and autumn in south-western Australia | year=2002 | publication-date=2002 | publisher=Four Gables Press | isbn=978-0-9580341-0-4}}</ref> |
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* ''Australian Botanist's Companion'' (2009) |
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* ''A Primer of Botanical Latin with Vocabulary'' (with Emma Short) (2013) |
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* ''Swanning around Perth: An Exploration of the Black Swan in our City'' (with Charmaine Cave) (2014,2016) |
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* ''Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings: A Glossary'', 4th edition (2021) |
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* ''Peter Good:Kew's collector with Mathew Flinders on HMS Investigator, 1801-1803'' (with David Moore) (2022) |
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* ''The Australian Botanical Liaison Officer scheme at Kew, 1937-2009'' |
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==References== |
==References== |
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<ref name="EASI">{{cite web |title=Nancy T. Burbidge Medal |url=https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006898b.htm |website=Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation |publisher=Swinburne University of Technology |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref> |
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==Further reading== |
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* {{cite book | author = Hall, Norman | title = Botanists of the Eucalypts | publisher=[[CSIRO]], [[Melbourne]] | year = 1978 | isbn = 0-643-00271-5}} |
* {{cite book | author = Hall, Norman | title = Botanists of the Eucalypts | publisher=[[CSIRO]], [[Melbourne]] | year = 1978 | isbn = 0-643-00271-5}} |
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* {{cite book | author = [[Celia Rosser|Rosser, Celia E.]] and Alex S. George | year = 1981–2001 | chapter = Alex George | title = The Banksias (3 volumes) | location = London | publisher = Academic Press in association with Monash University}} |
* {{cite book | author = [[Celia Rosser|Rosser, Celia E.]] and Alex S. George | year = 1981–2001 | chapter = Alex George | title = The Banksias (3 volumes) | location = London | publisher = Academic Press in association with Monash University}} |
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* {{cite journal | last = George | first = Alex | title = Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part I | journal = Native Plants for NSW | volume = 21 | issue = 4 | pages = 18–22 | publisher = Australian Plants Society, NSW Region | year = 1986 |
* {{cite journal | last = George | first = Alex | title = Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part I | journal = Native Plants for NSW | volume = 21 | issue = 4 | pages = 18–22 | publisher = Australian Plants Society, NSW Region | year = 1986 }} |
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* {{cite journal | last = George | first = Alex | title = Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part II | journal = Native Plants for NSW | volume = 21 | issue = 5 | pages = 11–14 | publisher = Australian Plants Society, NSW Region | year = 1986 |
* {{cite journal | last = George | first = Alex | title = Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part II | journal = Native Plants for NSW | volume = 21 | issue = 5 | pages = 11–14 | publisher = Australian Plants Society, NSW Region | year = 1986 }} |
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* {{cite web | url = http://www.cpbr.gov.au/biography/george-alex.html | title = George, Alexander S. (1939 - ) | author = A.E.Orchard |
* {{cite web | url = http://www.cpbr.gov.au/biography/george-alex.html | title = George, Alexander S. (1939 - ) | author = A.E.Orchard | year = 2012 | work = Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria | publisher = Australian National Herbarium | quote = [extract] from: A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., (1999) }} |
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Alexander Segger George AM (born 4 April 1939) is an Australian botanist. He is an authority on the plant genera Banksia and Dryandra. The "bizarre" Restionaceae genus Alexgeorgea was named in his honour in 1976.
Early life
[edit]Alex Segger George was born in Western Australia on 4 April 1939.[1]
Career
[edit]George joined the Western Australian Herbarium as a laboratory assistant at the age of 20 in 1959. He worked under Charles Gardner for a year before the latter's retirement, and partly credits him with rekindling an interest in banksias. In 1963 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, and the following year added a botany major. Continuing at the Western Australian Herbarium as a botanist, in 1968 he was seconded as Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. George also has an interest in history, especially historical biography of naturalists in Western Australia. He has published a number of articles in the field of history, including a history of the Royal Society of Western Australia and a tribute to naturalist and historian Rica Erickson. In 1999 he published a book on William Dampier's naturalist collections in Western Australia entitled William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian.[2]
George initially specialised in orchids, but his focus gradually moved to the Proteaceae genera Banksia and Dryandra and later Synaphea. He contributed the text to Celia Rosser's three volume The Banksias, published between 1981 and 2001, which contains Rosser's paintings of every Banksia species. In 1981 Nuytsia published his landmark monograph "The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)", the first systematic treatment of the taxonomy of Banksia since George Bentham's Flora Australiensis appeared in the 1870s. Three years later he published the popular The Banksia Book, and the following year he published An Introduction to the Proteaceae of Western Australia. In 1999, his taxonomy of the Banksia and Dryandra genera was published as part of the Flora of Australia series of monographs.[3]
From 1981 to 1993, George lived in Canberra and worked as Executive Editor for the Flora of Australia series. His extensive revision of the genus Verticordia, an arrangement which included new taxa, was published in Nuytsia in 1991. He is now living in Perth again, and works as a botanical and editorial consultant. He is also an Honorary Research Associate with the Western Australian Herbarium, and an Adjunct Associate Professor with the College of Science, Murdoch University.
Honours
[edit]In 2004 George received the Nancy T. Burbidge Medal from the Australasian Systematic Botany Society,[4][5] and an honorary Doctor of Science from Murdoch University in 2009.[citation needed] On 11 June 2012, he was named a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to conservation and the environment as a botanist, historian and author, particularly in the area of Australian flora, and through roles with national and international professional organisations."[6]
The genera Alexgeorgea and Georgeantha, and species Buellia georgei are named in his honour.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- Orchids of Western Australia (1969)[9]
- A New Eucalypt from Western Australia (1970)
- A List of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia (1971)
- Flowers and Plants of Western Australia (1973)
- The Genus Banksia (1981)
- The Banksias (1981–2002, with Celia Rosser)
- The Banksia Book (1984)
- An Introduction to the Proteaceae of Western Australia (1984)
- "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)." Nuytsia (1991)
- Notes on Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae) (1996)
- Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia (1996, with Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce A. Fuhrer)
- Banksia in Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra (1999)
- Dryandra in Flora of Australia: Volume 17B: Proteaceae 3: Hakea to Dryandra (1999)
- William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian (1999)[10]
- The Long Dry: Bush Colours of Summer and Autumn in South-Western Australia (2002)[11]
- Australian Botanist's Companion (2009)
- A Primer of Botanical Latin with Vocabulary (with Emma Short) (2013)
- Swanning around Perth: An Exploration of the Black Swan in our City (with Charmaine Cave) (2014,2016)
- Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings: A Glossary, 4th edition (2021)
- Peter Good:Kew's collector with Mathew Flinders on HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 (with David Moore) (2022)
- The Australian Botanical Liaison Officer scheme at Kew, 1937-2009
References
[edit]- ^ "George, Alexander S. (1939 - )". Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ George, A.S (1999). William Dampier in New Holland : Australia's first natural historian. Bloomings Books. ISBN 9781876473129. Retrieved 22 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ George, A.S. "Flora of Australia". ABRS publications. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ "Nancy T. Burbidge Medal". Australasian Systematic Botany Society. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ "Nancy T. Burbidge Medal". Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ "Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia - The Queen's Birthday 2012 Honours Lists" (PDF). Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia. 30 June 2012. p. 93. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2012.
- ^ Trinkaus, Ulrike; Mayrhofer, Helmut; Elix, John A. (2001). "Revision of the Buellia epigaea-group (lichenized ascomycetes, Physciaceae) 2. The species in Australia". The Lichenologist. 33 (1): 47–62. doi:10.1006/lich.2000.0286. S2CID 86761658.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. A.S.George.
- ^ George, Alex S. (Alexander Segger); Foote, Herb E (1971), Orchids of Western Australia, Westviews Pty Ltd, ISBN 978-0-9599547-0-8
- ^ George, Alexander S; George, Alex S (1999), William Dampier in New Holland : Australia's first natural historian, Bloomings Books, ISBN 978-1-876473-12-9
- ^ George, Alexander S; George, Alex (2002), The long dry : bush colours of summer and autumn in south-western Australia, Four Gables Press, ISBN 978-0-9580341-0-4
Further reading
[edit]- Hall, Norman (1978). Botanists of the Eucalypts. CSIRO, Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-00271-5.
- Rosser, Celia E. and Alex S. George (1981–2001). "Alex George". The Banksias (3 volumes). London: Academic Press in association with Monash University.
- George, Alex (1986). "Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part I". Native Plants for NSW. 21 (4). Australian Plants Society, NSW Region: 18–22.
- George, Alex (1986). "Banksias (Talk given at 1985 AGM):Part II". Native Plants for NSW. 21 (5). Australian Plants Society, NSW Region: 11–14.
- A.E.Orchard (2012). "George, Alexander S. (1939 - )". Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Australian National Herbarium.
[extract] from: A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., (1999)