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in 1981, a history of the country's plant collecting, collectors and early botanical illustrations, with a follow-up in 1985. Gunn was known for specialising in non-contemporary botanists. A student once asked her a question about a contemporary botanist to which she replied "...I only deal with dead
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on plant collecting trips. He saw the need for an informal botanical guide to the reserve and in 1951 produced "Trees and Shrubs of the Kruger National Park", one of the most popular items in the series
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Leighton etc. His specimens number more than 10,000 (PRE, K, SRGH) and are mainly South African, with about 500 having come from
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between 1931 and 1936. In 1937 he was appointed to the Pasture Research Section of the Department of Agriculture in
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in 1930, where he met his future wife, Cynthia. He worked with the Department of Agriculture in
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1982 Senior Captain Scott Memorial Medal by the South African Biological Society.
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A revised and expanded version was reissued in 2010 by Glen and Germishuizen
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1957–58 President of Section B of SA Assoc. for the Adv. of Sc.
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Codd is commemorated in numerous specific names including
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from 1963 until his retirement in 1973, and worked in the
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In 1945 he assumed the post of Officer-in-Charge at the
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botanists, either kill him off or ask Codd next door!"
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While stationed at Prinshof he frequently visited the
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Leslie Edward Wostall Codd
Leslie Edward Wostall Codd by Adela Romanowski
Dundee, South Africa
Pretoria
Dundee
Natal
Pretoria
Natal University
M.Sc
Cambridge University
Trinidad
British Guiana
Pretoria
D.Sc
University of South Africa
Kruger National Park
Mary Gunn
Robert Allen Dyer
Brachystelma
Dyer
Agapanthus
Caprivi
Barotseland
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name
"Celebrating Mary Gunn and 100 Years of Library Excellence in South Africa"
Codd, L. E.
Gunn, M
"Additional biographical notes on plant collectors in southern Africa"

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