Malcolm Wilson (botanist)
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Life
Wilson studied science at the University of London, graduating with a BSc in 1905. In 1909 he became Senior Demonstrator in Botany at Imperial College, London. He gained a doctorate (DSc) in 1911. He was created a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1910.[1]
He joined the Botany Department of the University of Edinburgh in 1911 as the first lecturer in mycology and bacteriology.[2]
During the First World War he returned to London to serve as a pathologist at the County of London War Hospital. He returned to the University of Edinburgh after the war.
In 1920 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Frederick Orpen Bower, James Hartley Ashworth and Robert Wallace.[3]
His students included Dr Mary Noble (1911-2002)[4] and Douglas Mackay Henderson.
He retired in 1951 and went to live with his son Graham in Sheffield, dying there on 8 July 1960.
Family
He was father to Graham Malcolm Wilson and Cedric Wilson.
Publications
- The Blueing of Coniferous Timber (1923)
- British Rust Fungi (completed and published by Douglas Mackay Henderson in 1966)
