Don Foreman | |
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Born | Donald Bruce Foreman 27 May 1945
Trangie,
New South Wales, Australia |
Died | 9 March 2004
Geelong, Victoria, Australia | (aged 58)
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Institutions | National Herbarium of Victoria Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |
Thesis | The morphology and phylogeny of some Monimiaceae (sensu lato) in Australia (1985) |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Foreman |
Donald Bruce Foreman (27 May 1945 – 9 March 2004) was an Australian botanist who worked on the Monimiaceae and Proteaceae of Australia. He also helped with the editing of selected Flora of Victoria and Flora of Australia Volumes.
After Foreman graduated from the University of New England in 1969, he took up a position as Forest Botanist at Lae in Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 1975. [1] On his return to Australia he took on a Master of Science at University of New England and then followed on with his PhD. Foreman worked at the National Herbarium of Victoria from 1984 to 1998 in various roles; Botanist, Senior Botanist, Collections Manager and Editor of Muelleria. Foreman did a stint as the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from September 1996 to August 1997. Foreman's work finished at the National Herbarium of Victoria at the end of 1997. Foreman was an Honorary Associate at the National Herbarium of Victoria from 2000 to 2004. [2]
During Foreman's career he collected extensively in Papua New Guinea and Australia. [3] The majority of Foreman's collections can be found at MEL and CANB, with collections also lodged in AD, ATH, BRI, HO, K, L, LAE, NE, NSW and PERTH.
The standard author abbreviation Foreman is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [4]
Foreman, D.B. (1976). A taxonomic study of the genus Helicia Lour. (Proteaceae) in New Guinea and Australia with notes on origin, distribution and ecology. MSc thesis, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales.
Co-Editor
Contributor
Foreman, D.B. (1981) Embryological and anatomical studies in the Monimiaceae/Atherospermataceae and their position in a putatively phylogenetic classification. In XIII International Botanical Congress, Sydney, Australia 21–28 August 1981: Abstracts. Sydney, Australian Academy of Science. 283.
Don Foreman | |
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Born | Donald Bruce Foreman 27 May 1945
Trangie,
New South Wales, Australia |
Died | 9 March 2004
Geelong, Victoria, Australia | (aged 58)
Alma mater | |
Known for |
|
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | National Herbarium of Victoria Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |
Thesis | The morphology and phylogeny of some Monimiaceae (sensu lato) in Australia (1985) |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Foreman |
Donald Bruce Foreman (27 May 1945 – 9 March 2004) was an Australian botanist who worked on the Monimiaceae and Proteaceae of Australia. He also helped with the editing of selected Flora of Victoria and Flora of Australia Volumes.
After Foreman graduated from the University of New England in 1969, he took up a position as Forest Botanist at Lae in Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 1975. [1] On his return to Australia he took on a Master of Science at University of New England and then followed on with his PhD. Foreman worked at the National Herbarium of Victoria from 1984 to 1998 in various roles; Botanist, Senior Botanist, Collections Manager and Editor of Muelleria. Foreman did a stint as the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from September 1996 to August 1997. Foreman's work finished at the National Herbarium of Victoria at the end of 1997. Foreman was an Honorary Associate at the National Herbarium of Victoria from 2000 to 2004. [2]
During Foreman's career he collected extensively in Papua New Guinea and Australia. [3] The majority of Foreman's collections can be found at MEL and CANB, with collections also lodged in AD, ATH, BRI, HO, K, L, LAE, NE, NSW and PERTH.
The standard author abbreviation Foreman is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [4]
Foreman, D.B. (1976). A taxonomic study of the genus Helicia Lour. (Proteaceae) in New Guinea and Australia with notes on origin, distribution and ecology. MSc thesis, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales.
Co-Editor
Contributor
Foreman, D.B. (1981) Embryological and anatomical studies in the Monimiaceae/Atherospermataceae and their position in a putatively phylogenetic classification. In XIII International Botanical Congress, Sydney, Australia 21–28 August 1981: Abstracts. Sydney, Australian Academy of Science. 283.