Today we have bad news: Dr. Richard Brummitt, from The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, passed away last Wednesday (September, the 18th). Those working with plant taxonomy surely have used the very famous Brummitt & Powell's Authors of Plant Names (see image below). A note from Kew staff was distributed via Brazilian Herbaria Net ("Rede Brasileira de Herbários"):
"We are very sad to announce that Dick Brummitt passed away last Wednesday. Dick retired in the late 1990s after a long and distinguished career at Kew but was a familiar face in HLAA over the years since. Dick was one of the 'greats' of plant nomenclature and among his many achievements was lead author of 'Vascular Plant Families and Genera' and 'Authors of Plant Names'. He was a prime mover in the establishment of nomenclatural databases at Kew. His knowledge of the 'International Code of Botanical Nomenclature' was second-to-none and his work on the Nomenclature Committee of the IAPT was widely recognised. He also had broad interests in tropical African botany especially in Leguminosae and Convolvulaceae"
Dick will be very sorely missed.
Dave"
It was hard to find an image from Richard Brummitt in internet. I could find only one (see below). Dr. Brummitt is in the far right side, together with other Kew Convolvulaceae Group members :
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| http://convolvulaceae.myspecies.info/content/kew-group-dick-brummittjpg |
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| Brummitt & Powell´s Authors of Plant Names, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (cover of 2010 edition)
There is also a little wikipedia page about Richard Brumitt:
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