Richard Arnold Dümmer’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African botanist
A.K.A. Dümmer
Was Scientist
Botanist
From South Africa
Type Science
Gender male
Birth

1887, Cape Town, South Africa

Death

2 December 1922, Kampala, Uganda
(aged 35 years)

Richard Arnold Dümmer (1887 Cape Town – 2 December 1922 Uganda) was a South African botanist who collected in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda.

Dümmer worked in the Cape Town municipal gardens before joining Kew as a gardener in 1910. In 1911 he became assistant to Prof. Augustine Henry and had a hand in preparing Elwes and Henry’s “The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland” for publication. Dümmer worked in the herbaria and libraries of Kew, the British Museum, the Linnaean Society, Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh Universities. He published taxonomic notes on Agathosma, Eugenia, Bruniaceae, Alepidea, Lotononis, Pleiospora, Combretaceae, Adenandra and Acmadenia.

He was employed by the Kivuvu Rubber Company of Kampala in 1914, using the opportunity to collect flowering plants and fungi. He also arranged botanical expeditions to Mount Elgon and Mount Longonot crater. Dümmer then spent a year back in Cape Town identifying and processing his collections.

His life and career were cut short by a motor-cycle accident on the Jinji road in Kampala. He is commemorated by the Kew Guild’s annual award of “The Dümmer Memorial Prize” to the student submitting the best collection of British plants. His specimens number over 20 000 and are housed at PRE, SAM, NH, BM, E, K, MO, P and US.

The standard author abbreviation Dümmer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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