Person

Pryor, Lindsay Dixon (1915 - 1998)

AO FTSE

Born
26 October 1915
Moonta, South Australia, Australia
Died
17 August 1998
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Botanist and Forester

Summary

Lindsay Dixon Pryor was foundation Professor of Botany, School of General Studies, Australian National University 1958-1976. His particular areas of interest were eucalypts and poplars. He wrote a number of books, including Trees and Shrubs in Canberra (1991, with J.C.G. Banks). In 1971 he was awarded the NW Jolly Medal by the Institute of Foresters of Australia - the highest honour awarded for outstanding service to the profession of forestry in Australia.

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Educated University of Adelaide (DSc) and Australian Forestry School (DipFor).

Chronology

1935
Award - Schlich medal (Australian Forestry School, Australian Capital Territory
1936 - 1939
Career position - Assistant Forester, Australian Capital Territory
1939 - 1940
Career position - Assistant Research Officer, Australian Capital Territory
1940 - c. 1944
Career position - Acting Forester, Australian Capital Territory
1942 - 1945
Military service - Second World War. Voluntary Defence Corps
1944 - 1958
Career position - Director, Parks and Gardens Canberra
1954
Taxonomy event - Co-author of Eucalyptus aromaphloia L.D.Pryor & J.H.Willis
1958 - 1976
Career position - Professor of Botany, School of General Studies, Australian National University
1962
Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus pryoriana L.A.S.Johnson
1962 - 1963
Career position - President, Ecological Society of Australia
1971
Award - N. W. Jolly Medal, Institute of Foresters of Australia
1975 - 1987
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1976
Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
13 Jun 1983
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - for service to botanical science
1985
Award - Maxwell Jacobs Memorial Oration, Institute of Foresters of Australia
1987 - 1998
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]
1 Aug 1997
Award - Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Pryor, L. D.; and Johnson, L. A. S., A classification of the eucalypts (Canberra: Australian National University, 1971), 102 pp. Details
  • Pryor, Lindsay Dixon, Australian endangered species : eucalypts (Canberra: Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1981), 139 pp. Details
  • Pryor, Lindsay Dixon; Banks, John C. G., Trees and shrubs in Canberra (Seven Hills, NSW: ittle Hills Press with the co-operation and assistance of the ACT Govt.,, 2001), 319 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Pryor, Lindsay Dixon; Johnson, Lawrence Alexander Sidney, 'Eucalyptus, the universal Australian' in Ecological biogeography of Australia (Monographiae biologicae vol.41), Keast, A., ed., vol. 1 (The Hague: W. Junk, 1981), pp. 499 - 536. Details
  • Turnbull, J.W.; and Pryor, L.D., 'Choice of species and seed sources.' in Eucalypts for wood production, Hillis, W.E. and Brown, A.G., eds (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), p. 434. Details

Gazette Articles

Journal Articles

  • Humphries, C. J.; Ladiges, P. Y.; and Brooker, M. I. H., 'Cladistic and biogeographic analysis of western Australian species of Eucalyptus L'Herit., informal subgenus Monocalyptus Pryor & Johnson.', Australian Journal of Botany, 35 (3) (1987), 251. Details

Resources

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_p.html. Details
  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details

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