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9 May 1712 - 25 Nov 1791
PIL
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1940-2009
Liz studied Dentistry at Liverpool University and worked as a school dentist in Edinburgh between approximately 1963 and 1975 before working as a local authority dentist(?) in the Midlothian area, until her retirement, aged 50, in 1990.
A keen amateur botanist and hillwalker, Liz started volunteer work soon after “retirement” at the Royal Museum Annexe in Granton and at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. She regularly volunteered for the Botanical Survey of Scotland, which involved identifying and recording all the flora in a given square kilometre of countryside. She had a particular interest in taxonomy, and her work at the Botanics involved assisting Richard Pankhurst in cataloguing of the Rosaceae family.
With many thanks to Liz's family for this information.
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24 Feb 1912 - 22 April 2005
An Italian botanist. He was a specialist on the ecology and phytogeography of tropical Africa, and also worked in plant taxonomy and pteridology.
In 1935, he graduated with a degree in Natural History from University of Florence.
From 1935 to 1958, was an assistant at the Institute of Botany in the University of Florence.
From 1958 to 1959 became a professor of botany at the University of Sassari in Sardinia.
From 1959, Rodolfo was a professor at the Institute of Botany in the University of Genoa and director of the Botanical Garden.
Pichi was a member of the Linnaean Society of London, the Botanical Society of America and the American Society of Ferns, he received the Hailé Selassié prize for his work in Ethiopia. He was also made a professor emeritus by the University of Perugia, Italy.