Underwood, Lucien Marcus, 1853-1907

Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853-1907) was a botanist specializing in pteridophyta. He succeeded Nathaniel Lord Britton as Professor of Botany of Columbia University and participated in New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) field expeditions to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and the Rocky Mountains. He was elected to the NYBG Board of Scientific Directors and was named Chairman in 1901. He was born in New Woodstock, N.Y. attended Cazenovia Seminary, Syracuse University and Harvard University. Underwood was the American delegate to the 1892 International Botanical Congress. He contributed a section on pteridophyta to Britton and Brown's Illustrated flora. He was editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club and assisted in the founding of the Botanical Society of America. He died in Connecticut in 1907.

Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853-1907) was a botanist specializing in pteridophyta. He succeeded Nathaniel Lord Britton as Professor of Botany of Columbia University and participated in New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) field expeditions to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and the Rocky Mountains. He was elected to the NYBG Board of Scientific Directors and was named Chairman in 1901. He was born in New Woodstock, N.Y. and attended Cazenovia Seminary, Syracuse University and Harvard University. Underwood was the American delegate to the 1892 International Botanical Congress. He contributed a section on pteridophyta to Britton and Brown's Illustrated flora. He was editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club and assisted in the founding of the Botanical Society of America. He died in Connecticut in 1907.

Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853-1907), was born in New Woodstock, New York. He collected plants in the United States and the Caribbean circa 1881-1903. He attended Syracuse University in 1873. A couple years later he formed a herbarium, using ferns first. He graduated in 1877 and went on to teach natural science at Cazenovia Seminary for two years. He became interested in the Hepaticae, and prepared a section on the Hepaticae in Gray's Manual of Botany, sixth edition, published in 1890. He later became a professor at Syracuse University. He took a year of leave to accept the Morgan Fellowship at Harvard University. There he studied the Sullivant and Taylor collection of hepatics. He continued to teach and became professor of botany at Columbia University. He continued to write and he published writings on entomology and fungi. He died in his home in Redding Connecticut on November 16, 1907.