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Name
  
Ronald Good

Role
  
Author

Died
  
December 11, 1992


Books
  
The geography of the flowering plants

Ronald D'Oyley Good (1896-1992) was a British botanist notable for his floristic regionalization.

Good was born in Dorchester. He studied botany at Downing College, Cambridge where he obtained an MA and Sc.D. He worked at the Botany Department of the Natural history museum (1922-1928). He worked at the Botany Department at the University of Hull from 1928 until his retirement in 1959. He was the author of The Geography of the Flowering Plants (1947) a popular work in botany.

Publications

The standard author abbreviation R.D.Good is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

  • Plants and Human Economics (1933)
  • The Old Roads of Dorset (1940)
  • A Geographical Handbook of the Dorset Flora (1948)
  • The Geography of the Flowering Plants (1947; 2nd ed. 1953, 3rd ed. 1964, 4th ed. 1974)
  • Features of Evolution in Flowering Plants (1956)
  • The Last Villages of Dorset (1979)
  • The Philosophy of Evolution (1981)
  • Concise Flora of Dorset (1984)

    • References

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