282:. On August 23, 1986, he married Roberta Ann Tobias, and adopted a son Michael Norman Sumner Cowan. In 1988 he was awarded the Commemorative Scroll Award from the Australian Systematic Botany Society for his work on Taxonomic Literature there. He received the Founder's Medal of the society in 1990 for the History and Bibliography of Natural History. He had a stroke in 1997, from which he recovered. After a fall, he died from the effects of brain trauma on November 17, 1997.
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