George Anderson Macdonald Scott

George Anderson Macdonald Scott (also known as G.A.M. Scott; 1933-1998) was a British polymath who specialised in bryology. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. graduating in 1961.

Major publications Scott, G.A.M. and Stone, I.G. 1976. The mosses of southern Australia (London, New York: Academic Press), with illustrations by Celia Rosser. Scott, G.A.M. 1985. Southern Australian liverworts. (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service), with illustrations by Bruce Fuhrer and Rod Seppelt. Cropper, S.C., Tonkinson, D.A. & Scott, G.A.M. 1991. A census of Victorian Bryophytes. (East Melbourne: Dept. of Conservation and Environment, Victoria). Scott, G.A.M. 1994. 'Liverworts and mosses.' In Entwistle, T.J. (Ed.) Aquatic Cryptogams of Australia: A Guide to the Larger Fungi, Lichens, Macroalgae, Liverworts and Mosses of Australian Inland Waters. (Abbotsford: Australian Society for Limnology): 106-142. Scott, G.A.M., Entwisle, T.J., May, T.W., Stevens, G.N. Eds. 1997. A conservation overview of Australian non-marine lichens, bryophytes, algae and fungi. (Canberra: Environment Australia)

Classics and bryology While on sabbaticals undertaking a research fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Scott also produced three papers combining his passion for Classics and bryology: Scott, G.A.M. (1987). Aristotle's Mosses. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 45: 46-47. Scott, G.A.M. (1987). Studies in Ancient Bryology, I. Introduction and Liverworts to 1500 A.D. Journal of Bryology, 14(4), 625–634. https://doi.org/10.1179/jbr.1987.14.4.625 Scott, G.A.M. (1988). Studies in Ancient Bryology, II. Mosses to 1500 A.D. Journal of Bryology, 15(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1179/jbr.1988.15.1.1