Scott was born in London, the son of George Gilbert Scott, matriculated at the University of Oxford, Christ Church College, graduating in 1876. Scott studied at the University of Würzburg under the German botanist Julius von Sachs in 1879-1880. Afterwards he taught at University College London and the Royal College of Science. He held a research post at Jodrell Laboratory in Kew Gardens as an “honorary keeper”, 1892-1906. Among his students was Ethel Sargant.
Scott collaborated with William Crawford Williamson on three seminal papers on fossil-plant morphology in 1894–95. And after the death of his co-author went on to publish the completion of his Introduction to Structural Botany in 1896. In 1904, Scott established the plant class Pteridospermeae, for the fossilized "seed ferns", now called Pteridospermatophyta tentatively ranked as a division of the plant kingdom.
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- Crystal , David (1998) The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia (2nd ed.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
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