Frank Lamson-Scribner was a botanist and plant pathologist. He was born in Cambridgeport, Mass. in 1851and graduated from the University of Maine in 1873. In 1885 he was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study diseases of economic plants. He later became a professor of botany and horticulture at the University of Tennessee as well as the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station there. He returned to the Department of Agriculture in 1894 and later was selected as chief of the Insular Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippines, working there from 1901 to 1904. He was also the author of several books on plants and plant diseases. He retired from government service in 1922 and died in 1938.
From the description of [Research material on Frank Lamson-Scribner] 1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85835544
