Thomas Maxwell Harris
Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS[1] (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983)[2] was a British botanist.
He was educated at Bootham School, York,[3] Wyggeston School, Leicester, University College, Nottingham and Christ's College, Cambridge.[2]
He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and was a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1] He served as President of the Linnean Society of London from 1961 to 1964.
Partial bibliography
- The Fossil Flora of Scoresby Sound East Greenland (Copenhagen, 1931).
- The British Rhaetic Flora (London, 1938).
- British Purbeck Charophyta (London, 1939).
- Liassic and Rhaetic Plants collected in 1936-38 from East Greenland, etc. (Copenhagen, 1946).
- Conifers of the Taxiodiaceæ from the Wealden Formation of Belgium, etc. (Brussels, 1953).
- The Yorkshire Jurassic flora (five volumes, London, 1961–1979).
Awards
- 1968 Linnean Medal
References
- 1 2 Chaloner, W. G. (1985). "Thomas Maxwell Harris. 8 January 1903-1 May 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 31: 228–226. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1985.0009.
- 1 2 HARRIS, Thomas Maxwell, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ↑ Bootham School Register. York, England: Bootham Old Scholars Association. 2011.
- ↑ IPNI. T.M.Harris.
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