Person

Royce, Robert Dunlop (Bob) (1914 - 2008)

Born
14 March 1914
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Died
10 July 2008
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Botanist and Science administrator

Summary

Bob Royce joined the staff of the Western Australian Herbarium in 1944 after seven years with the State's Department of Agriculture. He became Curator of the Herbarium in 1960. During his tenure he oversaw the building of Western Australia's first specially-designed herbarium building. Royce was particularly interested in the application of botany to agriculture and undertook significant research into toxic plants. Much of this work was published in the Western Australian Journal of Agriculture. He made substantial collections of Western Australian plants: these specimens are now in the Western Australian Herbarium. The genus Roycea C. Gardner (Chelopodiaceae) was named in his honour.

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Chronology

1944 - 1960
Career position - Botanist, Western Australian Herbarium
1948
Taxonomy event - Roycea C.A. Gardner was named in his honour
1960 - 1975
Career position - Curator, Western Australian Herbarium

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