Richard Sanders Rogers. Surgeon, Naturalist and Orchidologist: 1861-1942. With a foreword by Dr. Mark. A. Clemens. 2020. many b/w photogr. XI, 235 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

This book discusses Rogers' life and achievements in medicine and botany with emphasis on his interests in orchidology that covered a period of about thirty years from 1905. Rogers described about 88 species of Australian orchids, 18 species from Papua-New Guinea and 3 species from New Zealand. Of particular interest is the Western Australian Rhizanthella, a remarkable genus with entirely subterranean flowers. During 1919 he visited Western Australia and re-discovered all of R.D. Fitzgerald's species authored in 1881. He also discovered five new WA orchids. On that excursion, as on many excursions in Australia, he was accompanied by his wife, Jean Scott Rogers, an enthusiastic co-collector.This book is a dedicated, diligent compilation of Dr Rogers' life and botanical achievements written by equally dedicated grandson Lauder Scott-Rogers.