Donald McGillivray

Donald John McGillivray (born 20 August, 1935) in New South Wales, Australia, and is usually known as D.J. McGillivray. He is an Australian botanical taxonomist. He was trained in forestry, and became interested in plant taxonomy just before he transferred in 1964 to the National Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, New South Wales.

From 1969 to 1970, he was the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London.^[1]

McGillivray specialises in the Grevillea genus, and in 1993 published Grevillea – Proteaceae: A Taxonomic Revision, a definitive scientific survey of the prolific Australian plant genus.

The standard author abbreviation McGill. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

Notes

^ "A brief history of the ABLO position". http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/admin/ablo/history.html. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Preceded by A.S. George	Australian Botanical Liaison Officer 1969–1970	Succeeded by John Carrick

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