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Code	DS/UK/132
Name	Scott; Dukinfield Henry (1854-1934); palaeobotanist
Dates and Places	Born in London 28 Nov 1854. Died in Oakley, Hampshire 29 Jan 1934
Biography	Graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1876 after reading classics. Spent the following three years training as an engineer. Following the suggestion of William Thiselton-Dyer he studied botany in Germany from 1880-1882 under Julius von Sachs at the University of Wurzburg where he gained his PhD in 1881. Following his return to London he became assistant to Daniel Oliver at University College London. He served as lecturer at the Royal College of Science, London 1884-1892. He became Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew from 1892-1906. He also served as President of the Linnean Society 1908-1912 and President of the Microscopical Society 1904-1906. He was one of the founding members of the ANNALS OF BOTANY and contributed to the journal. Scott served as Chairman of the Annals of Botany Company from 1912. He had served as Vice-Chairman of the company since 1903 and remained in post until his death in 1934. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1880 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894. Scott received a royal medial in 1906 and the Darwin medal in 1926.
Surname	Scott
Forenames	Dukinfield Henry
Rules	International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997
Source	Ray Desmond's DICTIONARY OF BRITISH & IRISH BOTANISTS AND HORTICULTURISTS (NHM, London 1977); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35984 (accessed 11 Jun 2015)

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Reference	Title	Date
MCR/1/1/42	South Kensington Museum: Science and Art Department	17 Dec 1855-1912
AOB/1/4	'A. B. Company Minutes 1904-1931'	Nov 1904-1977
AOB	Annals of Botany Papers	1885-2015
AOB/1/3	'Annals of Botany Correspondence 1899 Jan & Feb'	9 Feb 1898-28 Feb 1899

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