Joseph Burtt Davy
Joseph Burtt Davy( 7 March 1870 Findern, Derbyshire – 20 August 1940 Birmingham) was a Quaker botanist and agrostologist.
He was the first curator of the Forest Herbarium( FHO) at the Imperial Forestry Institute when it was founded in 1924 under the Directorship of Professor Robert Scott Troup.
He attended school at Ilkley in West Yorkshire.
In 1891, he joined Kew Gardens as a technical assistant, leaving shortly after for the United States where he enrolled in the botany department at the University of California.
Here he studied agriculture from 1893–96 and took up the post of botanist at the Agricultural Experiment Station in California between 1896 – 1901, describing the Cyperaceae and Gramineae for" A Flora of Western Middle California" by Willis Linn Jepson.
Here he also met his wife- to- be, Alice Bolton( 1863 – 1953), a native Californian.
In early 1903, he was appointed botanist and agrostologist with the newly founded Transvaal Department of Agriculture.
Burtt Davy wasted no time in starting a collection of Transvaal plants, a process by which he acquired an intimate knowledge of the subject.
These first specimens came from Meintjieskop, Irene and a trip to the western Transvaal – at the time of his retirement in 1913, his collected specimens numbered 14,000.
Burtt Davy's appointment led directly to the founding of the" Division of Botany".
This later became the" Botanical Research Institute"( BRI) and then the" National Botanical Institute"( NBI) in 1989 when it amalgamated with the" National Botanic Gardens".
Still not content, bureaucracy stepped in once more in 2004 and it was renamed the" South African National Biodiversity Institute"( SANBI).
One of Burtt Davy's great interests was the subject of plant introduction, a matter to which he devoted much attention, importing plants and seeds from all over the world.
He was responsible for introducing the forage crop, teff, as well as the lawn grass Kikuyu.
He helped establish a maize- breeding centre at Vereeniging and resigned shortly before the publication of his comprehensive work on maize in 1914.
He moved to his own farm' Burttholm' near Vereeniging, where he set up a partnership with the Hon. Hugh Wyndham, breeding and growing agricultural seed and Hereford cattle.
The enterprise flourished and Burtt Davy was able to retire to England in 1919, returning to Kew and working on" A Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Transvaal with Swaziland Part 1" appearing in 1926 and" Part 2" in 1932.
The line drawings for this valuable taxonomic work were produced by his wife, Alice Bolton Davy.
He was awarded a Ph.D.from Cambridge in 1925 and took up the post of lecturer in tropical forest botany at the Imperial Forestry Institute at Oxford.
Here he started work on the series" Forest Trees and Timbers of the British Empire".
He was awarded a D. Phil. degree by the University in 1937.
He is commemorated in the genus name" Burttdavya" and in numerous specific epithets including" Aloe davyanaAcacia davyiHibiscus burtt- davyi" and" Ficus burtt- davyi".
This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Burtt Davy when citing a botanical name.
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