Brian Grieve
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Professor Brian John Grieve (15 August 1907 – 5 September 1997) was an Australian
Born in
Grieve returned to Victoria in 1931, taking up a lecturing position at the University of Melbourne. He remained there until 1947, except for a period in 1938 and 1939 when he studied
In 1947, Grieve moved to
Grieve was a long-time member of the Royal Society of Western Australia, joining in 1948, and twice serving as President. He was made an Honorary Life Member in 1975, and was awarded the Society's Medal in 1979. He also served on the Kings Park Board from 1959 to 1978.
In the public's eye, he is best known for his contributions to the How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers project, a series of books on systematic identification of the flora of Western Australia begun by William Blackall, and continued by Grieve after Blackall's death in 1941. Despite working on the project for over fifty years, he never published a formal taxonomic paper, and so does not have a formal botanical author abbreviation.
References
- George, A. S. (1997). "Brian John Grieve". Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. 80 (4): 289–290.
Further reading
- Western Australian Wildflower Society Newsletter, August 1992, pp.12-16
- Emeritus professor Brian John Grieve, 1907-1997, Leader, 6 October 1997, p.6
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