Introduction
Dr Malcolm Wilson FRSE FLS (1882–1960) was a 20th-century Scottish botanist and mycologist. He was an expert on the identification of dry rot and its remediation.
Life
He studied Science at the University of London, graduating BSc in 1905. In 1909 he became Senior Demonstrator in Botany at Imperial College, London. He gained a doctorate (DSc) in 1911. He was created a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1910.
He joined the Botany Department of Edinburgh University in 1911 as the first lecturer in both Mycology and Bacteriology.
During the First World War he returned to London to serve as a pathologist at the County of London War Hospital. He returned to Edinburgh University after the war.
In 1920 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Frederick Orpen Bower, James Hartley Ashworth and Robert Wallace.
His students included Dr Mary Noble (1911-2002) and Douglas Mackay Henderson.
He retired in1951 and went to live with his son Graham in Sheffieldand died there on 8 July 1960.
Family
He was father to Graham Malcolm Wilson and Cedric Wilson.
Publications
- The Blueing of Coniferous Timber (1923)
- British Rust Fungi (completed and published by Douglas Mackay Henderson in 1966)