Department of Botany

The discipline of Botany commenced in 1903 with the introduction of a Special Course in Botany, taught by Ellen Ida Benham.

In 1912 Theordore George Bentley Osborn was appointed as Professor of Botany and from the following year Botany was offered as a subject with the Bachelor of Science.

On 1 January 1999 the Department of Botany merged with the Department of Zoology to form the Department of Environmental Biology.

Professor of Botany

• Professor Theodore George Bentley Osborn, DSc (Manc), 1912-1928 (Emeritus Professor 1962)
• Professor Joseph Garnett Wood, PhD (Camb), DSc, FAA, 1935-1959
• Professor Sir Rutherford Ness Robertson, AC, CMG,  DSc (Syd), ScD (Camb), FRS, FAA, 1962-1969 (Emeritus Professor 1969)
• Professor Peter Gordon Martin, BSc, PhD, 1967-1984 (Emeritus Professor 1984)
• Professor Hugh Bryan Spencer Womersley, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, DSc (Adel), FAA, 1946-1988 (Emeritus Professor 1988)