Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983) was an English paleobotanist. Education and career He was educated at Bootham School, York, Wyggeston School, Leicester, and University College, Nottingham, before continuing to complete his doctorate at Christ's College, Cambridge. Tom Harris became a professor at the University of Reading in 1934, working in the botany department with Theodora Lisle Prankerd and Terrance Ingold. He was Head of the Department of Botany. At Reading he supervised William Chaloner and Winifred Pennington, both later professors of botany. The Harris Garden, located on the University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus, was named after him. Harris was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He served as President of the Linnean Society of London from 1961 to 1964. Awards 1968 Linnean Medal Partial bibliography The Fossil Flora of Scoresby Sound East Greenland (Copenhagen, 1931). The British Rhaetic Flora (London, 1938). British Purbeck Charophyta (London, 1939). Liassic and Rhaetic Plants collected in 1936-38 from East Greenland, etc. (Copenhagen, 1946). Conifers of the Taxiodiaceæ from the Wealden Formation of Belgium, etc. (Brussels, 1953). The Yorkshire Jurassic flora (five volumes, London, 1961–1979). References 1903 births 1983 deaths British palaeontologists Paleobotanists 20th-century British botanists People educated at Bootham School People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys Alumni of the University of Nottingham Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Reading Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences