Prof.dr. D.J. Mabberley

Extra-ordinary professor Systematic Plant Anatomy

Contact information

Tel: +31 (0) 71 527 3590
Fax: +31 (0) 71 527 3522
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Main research interests

Current research:
Systematics and ecology of Rutaceae (especially Citrus), Vitaceae, Malvaceae (‘Tiliaceae’), Meliaceae and Labiatae; economic plants; importance of nineteenth-century horticulture in scientific progress; history of botanical illustration

Other scientific interests:
History of biological thought; bibliography

Publications

Books
1. (1977, ed. with C.K. LAN).  Tropical botany. Essays presented to E.J.H. Corner for his seventieth birthday.  Pp. 266 + 17 tab. Botanic Gardens, Singapore
2. (1981, ed.).  Revolutionary botany. Thalassiophyta and other essays of A.H. Church.  Pp. xii + 256, 28 tab. Clarendon, Oxford
3. (1983).  Tropical rain forest ecology.  Pp. vii + 156, 18 figs. Blackie, Glasgow
4. (1985).  Jupiter botanicus. Robert Brown of the British Museum. Pp.  500 + 64 text figs & 24 col. plates. Cramer, Braunschweig & British Museum (Natural History), London
5. (1987).  The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the higher plants. Pp. xii + 706 [reprints, with corrections, Pp. 707 - 1989, 1990, 1993 (twice), 1996]. Cambridge University Press
6. (1991, ‘1992’).  Tropical rain forest ecology, second edition. Pp. xi + 300 [reprinted 1994]. Blackie, Glasgow
7. (1993, with P.J. PLACITO).  Algarve plants and landscape.  Passing tradition and ecological change.  Pp. xvi + 300 with 269 text figs & 279 col. plates. Oxford University Press
8. (1995, with C.M. PANNELL & A.M. SING)  Meliaceae. Pp. 407. Flora Malesiana Foundation
9. (1997a). The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the vascular plants, second edition. Pp. xvi + 858 [reprints with corrections, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006; South Asian Edition (different ISBN), 2005].  Cambridge University Press
10. (1997b, with J. POMFRETT & P. WATTS). An exquisite eye: The Australian flora and fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer. Pp. 167. Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Glebe NSW
11. (1998 [‘1999’], with H.W. LACK).  The Flora Graeca Story. Sibthorp,  Bauer and Hawkins in the Levant. Pp. xxxi + 327. Oxford University Press - Awarded OPTIMA Silver Medal 2001
12. (1999a [‘1998’]). Paradisus: Hawaiian plant watercolors by Geraldine King Tam. Pp. viii + 152. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu
13. (1999b). Ferdinand Bauer: the nature of discovery. Merrell Holberton & The Natural History Museum, London. Pp. 128 with 32 text figs & 63 colour plates.
14. (2000). Arthur Harry Church: the anatomy of flowers. Merrell & The Natural History Museum, London. Pp. 128 with 44 text figs & 62 colour plates.
15. (2006, with B.E. JUNIPER). The story of the apple. Pp. 219 + numerous text figs & 36 colour plates. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, & Cambridge, UK.
16. (2008) Mabberley’s plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses, third edition. Pp. xviii + 1021. Cambridge University Press

For other works (some 250 in technical and popular journals etc.), including monographs, see list of publications – N.B. Complete set of originals held in Mabberley Collection in Library of Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Other relevant information

Present post and affiliations:
Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK (March 2008—>; tel.: [44] 208 332 5212; FAX: [44] 208 332 5278);
Visiting Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford (2008—>);
Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2006—>);
Extraordinary Professor, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Faculty of Science, University of Leiden, The Netherlands (2004—>; mabberley@nhn.leidenuniv.nl);
Adjunct Professor, College of Science, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia (2004—>);
Honorary Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (1996—>; david.mabberley@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au);
Trustee, National Botanic Garden of Wales (2008—>);
Trustee, Joseph Banks Archive Project, Natural History Museum, London, UK (1996—>);
President, International Association for Plant Taxonomy (2005—>);
Trustee, Bentham-Moxon Trust (2008—>);
Member, Visiting Committee, Longwood Gardens, USA (2008-2014);
Project Advisor, Kuwait University; Advisory Board, Flora of Peninsular Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur); Board Member, Ray Society (2008—>)

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