Phillips, Edwin Percy

LC control no.	n 85018337
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Phillips, Edwin Percy *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Phillips, E. Percy (Edwin Percy)
Associated country	South Africa
Birth date	1884-02-18
Death date	1967-04-12
Place of birth	Cape Town (South Africa)
Profession or occupation	Botanists
Found in	Dyer, R.A. The genera of Southern African flowering plants, 1975-76: t.p. (Edwin Percy Phillips) LC data base, 4-11-85 (hdg.: Phillips, Edwin Percy) A brief historical sketch of the development of botanical science in South Africa and the contribution of South Africa to botany, 1930: t.p. (E. Percy Phillips, Principal Botanist, Division of Plant Industry, Pretoria) S2A3 WWW site, 26 July, 2017 (Phillips, Dr Edwin Percy; Born: 18 February 1884, Cape Town, South Africa; Died: 12 April 1967, Cape Town, South Africa; E. Percy Phillips, botanist; In 1911 Phillips succeeded Professor Pearson as curator of the South African Museum herbarium; In May 1918 Phillips was appointed curator of the National Herbarium of the Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, in Pretoria; In 1939 he became head of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology (later the Botanical Research Institute), a post he held until his retirement in 1944; a Fellow of the Linnean Society (London), and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa in 1921; a member of the South African Biological Society he served as secretary from 1919 to 1944, as president in 1950; a member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1915, served on its council for many years, and was elected president of Section C (which included botany) in 1930; From 1946 to 1948 he was the scientific liaison officer of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Washington DC) <http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=2191>
Associated language	eng