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Joseph Robert Sealy

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Nationality
  
British

Spouse
  
Stella Ross-Craig

Died
  
August 1, 2000


Name
  
Joseph Sealy

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Sealy

Known for
  
Tea

Joseph Robert Sealy (b. 1907 - d. August 1, 2000 ) was an English botanist. His career in Botany in 1925,working at Kew Gardens, with Thomas Archibald Sprague in the tropical crops section. Later (1927) he worked in the Herbarium with Arthur William Hill. He was appointed Assistant Botanist in 1940. His specialty was the Flora of China, especially Camellia.

In his personal life he was married to fellow botanist and colleague, Stella Ross-Craig (1906-2006).

Publications

  • 1958. Revision of the Genus Camellia.
  • He is the botanical author of iris graeberiana, which was first published in Botanical Magazine 167: t. 126 in 1950.

    References

    Joseph Robert Sealy Wikipedia