Allen, Caroline K.

Caroline Kathryn Allen was a taxonomist specializing in the Lauraceae. She served the New York Botanical Garden as Honorary Collaborator in Lauraceae (1951-1959) and as Research Associate (1959-1974). She was born in Pawling, N.Y., daughter of Howard N. Allen, member of the N.Y. State Assembly. Her training was at Vassar and the Missouri Botanical Garden. Her early studies were in Halenia. She served as Assistant in the Herbarium at the Arnold Arboretum. Her work with Bassett Maguire on determining the Lauraceae in his "Plant Explorations of Guiana" led to her career at the New York Botanical Garden. Allen and A.J.G.H. Kostermans were considered the world experts in Lauraceae. She collected in Trinidad, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Surinam. She died in 1975.

From the description of Caroline Kathryn Allen papers 1926-1957. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 42244770

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