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Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 in Sea Point, Cape Town – 12 April 1967 in Cape Town), was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work ''The Genera of South African Flowering Plants'' first published in 1926. Phillips attended the South African College, which later became the University of Cape Town, where he graduated under Prof. Henry Harold Welch Pearson, obtaining a BA in 1903, an MA in 1908 and a DSc in 1915 for a treatise on the flora of the Leribe Plateau in Lesotho. 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.〔(RootsWeb )〕 Phillips named the genus ''Susanna'' belonging to the family Asteraceae after her.〔(Plant Names )〕 ==Timeline of career== *1907 Herbarium assistant at South African Museum (Prof. Pearson honorary curator) *1910 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - with Otto Stapf and John Hutchinson described Proteaceae for ''Flora Capensis''. *1911 Curator of South African Museum Herbarium, succeeding Pearson who moved to the Bolus Herbarium *1911 Joined Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to the Kamiesberge *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 Torre & Harms. *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'' 〔''Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa'' - Gunn & Codd〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Percy Phillips」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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