HAWKES, J(ohn) G(regory)

HAWKES, J(ohn) G(regory). British, b. 1915. Genres: Biology, Botany, Bibliography. Career: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, Cambridge, England, taxonomist, 1940-48; Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, Bogota, director of potato research program, 1948-51; Agricultural Research Council, Cambridge, taxonomist, 1951-52; University of Birmingham, England, lecturer, 1952-61, professor of plant taxonomy to Mason Professor of Botany, 1961-82, head of department of plant biology, 1967-82, honorary senior research fellow, School of Continuing Studies, professor emeritus, 1982-. Conducted plant collecting expeditions in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the United States, 1939-81. Station of Wisconsin, adviser, 1965-82; Royal Botanic Gardens, member of scientific advisory panel, 1975-84; consultant to International Potato Center, 1972-82. Conducted plant collecting expeditions in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the United States, 1939-81. Publications: (with J.P. Hjerting) The Potatoes of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay: A Biosystematic Study, 1969; (with Cadbury and Readett) A Computer-Mapped Flora, 1971; The Diversity of Crop Plants, 1983; (with Williams and Croston) A Bibliography of Crop Genetic Resources, 1984; Plant Genetic Resources: The Impact of the International Research Centers, 1985; (with J.P. Hjerting) The Potatoes of Bolivia, 1989; The Potato, 1990; Collecta Clusiana, 1994; (with N. Maxted and B.V. Ford-Lloyd) Plant Genetic Conservation: The in situ Approach, 1997. EDITOR: Reproductive Biology and Taxonomy of Vascular Plants, 1966; Chemotaxonomy and Serotaxonomy, 1968; (with W. Lange) European and Regional Gene Banks, 1974; (with O.H. Frankel) Crop Genetic Resources for Today and Tomorrow, 1975; Conservation and Agriculture, 1978; (with Lester and Skelding) The Biology and Taxonomy of the Solanaceae, 1979; (with Harris) The N.I. Vavilov Centenary Symposium, 1990; (with Engels and Woreda) Crop Genetic Resources of Ethiopia, 1991; (with Lester, Nee, and Estrada) Solanaceae III, 1991; Genetic Conservation of World Crop Plants, 1991; Vavilov Lectures, 1994. Address: Winterbourne Botanical Gardens, School for Professional and Continuing Education, 58 Edgbaston Park Rd, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2RT, England. Online address: J.G.Hawkes@bham.ac.uk