Adamson, Robert Stephen   (1885 - 1965)

Born on 2 March 1885; died on 6 November 1965 in Scotland. English botanist from Manchester who was a lecturer in botany at Manchester University (1912-1922) before sailing to Australia (1922), then moving to South Africa where he was appointed Professor of Botany at the University of Cape Town (1923-1950).

Adamson published on the vegetation of South Africa and wrote a flora of the Cape area, eventually retiring to Scotland in 1955.

Two early ecological papers based on his visit to Australia were published as:

On the ecology of the Ooldea district (1922)

The ecology of the eucalyptus forests of the Mount Lofty ranges (Adelaide district), South Australia (1924)

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https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000000047
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