Douglas Miller Reid
Douglas Miller Reid FRSE FLS FZS (1897–1959) was a 20th-century Scottish schoolmaster and noted amateur botanist and botanical author.
Life
[edit]He was born in Motherwell on 25 November 1897 and educated at Motherwell Academy.
In 1918, aged only 21, he became a Member of the Linnean Society of London, later being elected a Fellow (FLS). From 1921 until 1953 he was Biology Master of Harrow School. He was also Curator of the Butler Museum.[1]
In 1942 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward Hindle, Alexander Condie Stephen, Edward Wyllie Fenton and John Berry.[2]
He died suddenly on 4 September 1959 at his home, House of Stoer near Lairg in Sutherland in northern Scotland.
Publications
[edit]- Animal Classification and Distribution (1925)
- Introduction to Biology
- Botany for the Gardener (1966)
References
[edit]- ^ Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1960
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
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