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Wendell Holmes "Red" Camp (1904-1963) was a botanical explorer, taxonomic theorist, experimental botanist, educator, popular author and landscape photographer. He came to the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in 1936 as a researcher in Vaccinium. He was named Assistant Curator in 1936 and Associate Curator in 1949. During World War II he worked with the Société haitiano américain de développement agricole to develop luffa and cryptostegia sources and the Misión de Cinchona in Ecuador where he explored the cloud forests for Cinchona. He initiated and edited the Taxonomic Index (1939-1949). He oversaw the first International Code of Nomenclature for Horticultural Plants (1952). He joined the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1949 as Curator of Experimental Botany where he pursued work in Vaccinium, Veratrum and Hedera. He designed the Taylor Arboretum. In 1953 he accepted the Chair of the Department of Botany at the University of Connecticut. He was born in Dayton, Ohio and attended Otterbein College. He received his Ph. D. from Ohio State University in 1932. He died at Storrs, Conn. in 1954.

From the description of Wendell Holmes Camp papers 1916-1978. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 42282314

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