372:, Seattle, US, where he was also Professor of Economic Botany in the College of Forest Resources. During his tenure there, he oversaw the union of the Washington Park Arboretum, Center for Urban Horticulture, Union Bay Natural Area, Elisabeth C. Miller Library and Otis Douglas Hyde Herbarium as the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, of which he was the founding director. In March 2008 he took up the newly created position of Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at the
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Mabberley is known as a world traveller, having performed fieldwork in many countries over several decades: Kenya (1969, 1970–71), Uganda (1970–71), Tanzania (1971–72), Madagascar (1971), Malaysia, Singapore & Indonesia (1974, 1981), Papua New Guinea (1974, 1989), Seychelles (1978), Panamá
380:(1978–79), Portugal (1984–96), New Caledonia (1984), New Zealand (1990), Sri Lanka (1991), Hawai’i (1998), Cape York, Australia (Royal Geographical Society of Queensland expedition, 2002), Malaysia (2003, 2007), Vietnam (2005), China (2006, 2008), India (2019), Japan (2019).
655:. D.J. Mabberley, 2008. Reprinted with corrections 2009, 2014. Cambridge University Press. Awarded American Botanical Council’s annual James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award for 2008 and IAPT’S Engler Medal in Silver 2009.
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Mabberley moved to
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705:(Editor). Flora Malesiana, Series 1, Volume 12. D. J. Mabberley, C.M. Pannell & A.M. Sing, 1995. Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
502:. In honour of his seventieth birthday, colleagues and former students prepared a Festschrift, presented to him at Singapore Botanic Gardens, 27 September 2019.
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602:. D.J. Mabberley & D.T. Moore, 2022. Koeltz Botanical Books, GlashĂĽtten, Germany.
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638:. A portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses, fourth edition
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The Peter Crossing Collection: an illustrated catalogue. Pp. xiii + 357
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Painting by numbers' - the life and art of Ferdinand Bauer
699:. D. J. Mabberley, 1997. Cambridge University Press, UK.
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Jupiter botanicus. Robert Brown of the British Museum
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488:The Australian Botanic Garden at Mount Annan
860:Office of the Governor-General of Australia
665:Arthur Harry Church: the anatomy of flowers
566:In 2018 he was presented with the award of
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739:. D. J. Mabberley, 1983. Blackie, Glasgow.
552:. In 2005 he was elected President of the
550:Society for the History of Natural History
496:Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah
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608:. D.J. Mabberley, 2019. NewSouth, Sydney.
594:A Cultural History of Plants: Volumes 1-6
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274:Medal in Silver in 2009. As of June 2017
1219:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
1204:Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford
671:Ferdinand Bauer: the nature of discovery
548:In 1993 he was elected President of the
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441:Cinnamomum mabberleyi
405:Impatiens ukagurensis
963:"New Gardens boss".
830:"The World of After"
576:Macquarie University
449:Homalomena davidiana
437:Begonia mabberleyana
362:University of Leiden
358:Macquarie University
350:University of Kuwait
342:University of Leiden
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627:Banks' Florilegium
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