Malcolm Wilson (botanist)
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.Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists: Ray Desmond
He joined the Botany Department of the University of Edinburgh in 1911 as the first lecturer in mycology and bacteriology.{{cite web |title=Malcolm Wilson (d. 1960) - Our History |url=http://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php/Malcolm_Wilson_(d._1960) |website=ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk |access-date=28 July 2021}}
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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2019-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
His students included Dr Mary Noble (1911-2002)Scotsman (newspaper) obituary of Mary Noble 8 August 2002 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)
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