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Richard Sanders Rogers
LAUDER. RICHARD SCOTT-ROGERS
其他書名
Surgeon, Naturalist and Orchidologist: 1861-1942
出版Delphian Books, 2020-05-12
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralHistory / Australia & New ZealandMedical / Family & General Practice
ISBN06482904419780648290445
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7sRpzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book, 'Richard Sanders Rogers 1861-1942', discusses Rogers's life and achievements with emphasis on his botanical interests that covered a period of about thirty years from 1905. Rogers described about 88 species of Australian orchids, 18 species from Papua-New Guinea and 3 species from New Zealand. Of particular interest is the Western Australian Rhizanthella, a remarkable genus with entirely subterranean flowers. During 1919 he visited Western Australia and re-discovered all of R.D.Fitzgerald's species authored in 1881. He also discovered five new WA orchids. On that excursion, as on many excursions in Australia, he was accompanied by his wife, Jean Scott Rogers, an enthusiastic co-collector.In addition to many papers published in the Transactions of The Royal Society of South Australia, Rogers wrote 'An Introduction to the Study of South Australian Orchids' in 1909, which was followed by an enlarged edition in 1911. He also contributed the section on Orchidaceae in J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia, 1922, and he wrote the article on Orchids for the original edition of the Australian Encyclopaedia. Also of significance was an address entitled 'Some Developments in Orchidology' presented to the Botanical section of the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress held in Sydney in 1932. That paper was acclaimed in Australia and overseas and later submitted as the thesis for his D.Sc. degree granted by the University of Adelaide in 1936. Rogers freely shared his knowledge and was a helpful and friendly correspondent to students, beginners, serious naturalists and botanists alike. When Rogers died in 1942 he left a long and remarkable career of academic achievement and public appointments which made him a most distinguished South Australian. While he was a most eminent member of the medical profession, it was his love of nature and his work in the field of orchidology which will perpetuate his memory.