New Zealand teacher, botanist, scientific administrator, writer (1882–1957)
For other people named Harry Allan, see Harry Allan (disambiguation).
Harry Allan
CBE
Allan c. 1956
Born
Harry Howard Barton Allan
(1882-04-27)27 April 1882
Nelson, New Zealand
Died
29 October 1957(1957-10-29) (aged 75)
Wellington, New Zealand
Alma mater
Auckland University College
Awards
Hutton Memorial Medal (1941) Hector Memorial Medal (1942)
Scientific career
Fields
Botanist
Institutions
Waitaki Boys' High School Ashburton High School Feilding Agricultural High School Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Thesis
Vegetation of Mount Peel, Canterbury, N.Z. (1923)
Author abbrev. (botany)
Allan
Harry Howard Barton AllanCBE (27 April 1882 – 29 October 1957) was a New Zealand teacher, botanist, scientific administrator, and writer. Despite never receiving a formal education in botany,[1] he became an eminent scientist, publishing over 100 scientific papers, three introductory handbooks on New Zealand plants, and completing the first volume of a flora in his lifetime.
Born in Nelson, he was educated at Nelson College and later Auckland University College, from which he graduated MA in 1908. He worked for many years as a teacher of English and agricultural studies at secondary schools around New Zealand. Throughout his teaching career, he became increasingly interested in and knowledgeable of botany, and wrote several articles in academic journals. He often collaborated and spoke with botanists, such as Alfred and Leonard Cockayne. For his lengthy botanical study of Mount Peel, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1923. He became a member of the Linnean society and the New Zealand Institute, and was appointed a systematic botanist for the Plant Research Station in 1928.
He spent twenty years working there, becoming head of the botany division when the research institute was split up in 1936 by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (D.S.I.R). Allan oversaw and contributed to vast amounts of research surrounding New Zealand's plants—particularly on grasses, pollen, and genetics. He retired in 1948 and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E) for services to botany in New Zealand in the King's Birthday Honours that year. In retirement he worked on volume one of Flora of New Zealand, the first in a series of books describing the introduced and endemic plants of New Zealand. He died before it was published in 1957, aged 75.
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