"Australian Botanist" Arthur Court Hand Signed TLS Dated 1973 Todd Mueller COA

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"Australian Botanist" Arthur Court Hand Signed TLS Dated 1973.
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Arthur Bertram Court
(25 December 1927 – 18 May 2012) was an Australian
botanist
He grew up in the
Dandenong Ranges
in
Victoria
where he became interested in local flora especially
ferns
and
orchids
. Court graduated and received his Bachelor of Science from the
University of Melbourne
.
Employed at the Department of Crown Lands and Survey in Victoria then at the National Herbarium of Victoria he became the botanist in 1957. He collected extensively in Victoria and South Australia, particularly species of
Acacia
. His written works included the family Mimosaceae section in J.H. Willis’s
Handbook to the Plants of Victoria
. From 1966 to 1967 he was the
Australian Botanical Liaison Officer
at
Kew Gardens
.
In 1974 Court was employed as the Curator of the Herbarium at Canberra Botanic Gardens and was later promoted to Assistant Director of the National Collections of the
Australian National Botanic Gardens
in 1983 until he retired in 1989. During his career he published work in several journals including
Victorian  Naturalist
,
Muelleria
and
Nuytsia
.
Acacia courtii
was named by
Mary Tindale
and Clare Herscovitch in honour of Court's achievements.
The standard
author abbreviation
Court
is used to indicate this person as the author when
citing
a
botanical name
.