Combined records of the Arnold Arboretum and the Gray Herbarium, 1850-

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888

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Often called the “Father of American Botany,” Asa Gray was instrumental in establishing systematic botany as a field of study at Harvard University and, to some extent, in the United States. His relationships with European and North American botanists and collectors enabled him to serve as a central clearing house for the identification of plants from newly explored areas of North America. He also served as a link between American and European botanical sciences. Gray regularly reviewed new Euro...

Mexía, Ynés, 1870-1938

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Ynés Mexía was born May 24, 1870 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where her father, General Enrique A. Mexía, was serving as a representative of the Mexican government under President Porfirio Díaz. Her grandfather, José Antonio Mexía, was also a Mexican general, serving under President Antonio López de Santa Anna. Her mother, Sarah R. Wilmer of Maryland, was a descendent of Samuel Eccleston, Fifth Archbishop of Baltimore. Ynés Mexía spent her early childhood in Texas on a land grant where the t...

Arnold Arboretum

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The planning for the Arnold Arboretum Centennial celebration began in 1967 when Dr. Richard A. Howard, Arboretum Director from 1954-1978, appointed committees of supporters and visiting-committee members to raise funds for the upcoming event. The week-long celebration (May 21-28, 1972) opened with a banquet in a downtown Boston hotel that featured an address by William T. Stearn, famous taxonomist and botanist from the British Museum of Natural History. Events included a daylong symposium on "Po...

Harvard university. Botanical Museum

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The Botanical Museum was established in 1878, under the direction of George Lincoln Goodale. Oakes Ames was appointed curator in 1923. From the description of Records of the Botanical Museum, 1909-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973121 ...

Beccari, E. O.

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Judd, W. S.

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Lingnan University

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Harvard University. Gray Herbarium Library.

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Clemens, Joseph, 1862-1936.

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Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950

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Fernald (1873-1950) was educated at Maine State College and at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard (S.B. 1897). He served as an assistant at the Gray Herbarium, 1891-1902; as Curator, 1935-1937; and as Director, 1937-1947. He also taught botany at Harvard as instructor, 1902-1905; assistant professor, 1905-1915; and Fisher Professor of Natural History, 1915-1947. Fernald is noted for his research on phytogeography; he combined extensive field work with herbarium studies, concentrating on the flo...

Killip, Ellsworth P., 1890-1968.

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Moore, N. E. A.

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Hitchcock, A. S. 1865-1935.

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Pittier, Henri, 1857-1950

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Henri Pittier was a Swiss-born botanist, geographer, linguist, and ethnographer. Pittier moved to Costa Rica in 1887 to found and direct the country's first geographic institute, the Instituto Físico-Geográfico. Pittier served as a botanist for the USDA from 1904 to 1919. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_495_pid_EACP492 ...

Pringle, Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey), 1838-1911

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Cyrus G. Pringle (1838-1911) was an American botanist who spent his career cataloging the plants of North America, especially in Mexico. He was born on May 6, 1838 in East Charlotte, Vermont. He enrolled at the University of Vermont but had to leave after a semester when his older brother died, so he could run the farm. He did fight in the Civil War, but was discharged after a short time. He went back to the farm and continued his work as a plant breeder where experimented with crops such as cor...

Purpus, Karl Albert 1851-1941

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Cantino, Philip Douglas.

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Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911

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Palmer was a physician in the United States Army and a naturalist. From the description of Notes and materials relating to the American West, 1859-1914 (inclusive), 1859-ca. 1890 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612371601 Edward Palmer (1831-1911) was born on January 12, 1831, in Norfolk, England. He came to the United States at the age of eighteen and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. There he met Dr. Jared Kirkland, one of the most eminent scientists of that day...

Smith, Herbert H. (Herbert Huntington), 1851-1919

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Fan, Chʻing-seng.

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Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962

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Not only a botanist, plant collector, naturalist, and explorer, Joseph Rock was also a philologist, linguist, and anthropologist. Beginning in 1924 Rock explored northwest China and Tibet, collecting plant material for the Arnold Arboretum and ornithological specimens for Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. On his 1924 expedition Rock collected 20,000 herbarium specimens and many packages of propagative material. Few new species were found but Rock lived up to Sargent's principal objective,...

Berlandier, Jean Louis, -1851

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Berlandier (1805-1851) was born in France and at a young age went to Geneva where he became an apprentice in a drug firm. He studied under the botanist Alphonse de Candolle; in 1826 he went to Mexico to collect plants under the sponsorship of de Candolle. Several published works based on this research appeared between 1832 and 1850. Berlandier also established himself as a pharmacist and doctor in Matamoros, Mexico. From the description of Papers of Jean Louis Berlandier, 1825-1855 (...

Nanking University.

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Skutch, Alexander F. (Alexander Frank), 1904-2004

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Alexander F. Skutch (1904-2001) was born on May 4, 1904, in Baltimore, Maryland. He wrote books and papers on birds and his life in the rain forests of Central America. Before he became interested in birds he went to Jamaica shortly after college and worked on banana-leaf tissue at the United Fruit Company. Atrip to Panama exposed him to tropical birds. His important discovery was the "co-operative breeding" in Brown Jays. He noticed how birds would help one another, especially with parenting an...

United States exploring expedition (1838-1842)

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The United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes left U.S.A. Aug. 1838, returning July 1842. The ships in the expedition were the Flying Fish, Oregon, Peacock, Porpoise, Relief, Seagull and Vincennes. The expedition visited the Antarctic, Sydney Harbour, Bay of Islands, N.Z., various islands in the Pacific and areas on the coast of South America and U.S.A. From the description of Records [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845806 ...

Schweinitz, Lewis David ˜vonœ 1780-1834

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Lewis David von Schweinitz (1780-1834) was called "the first American mycologist" by William Farlow. He is also known by the names de Schweinitz and Schweinitz. His Synopsis fungorum Carolinae Superioris and Synopsis fungorum in America Borealis are milestones in the history of mycology. Born in Bethlehem, Pa., he was educated by the Moravian Brethren in Germany. Von Schweinitz's career as a secular official of the Moravian Church in the United States provided opportunities for travel and collec...

Henry, Augustine, 1857-1930

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Harvard University. Gray Herbarium. Visiting Committee.

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Hu, Hsen Hsu, 1894-1968

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Philippines. Bureau of science

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Smith, Albert C. (Albert Charles), 1906-1999

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Military officer. From the description of Albert A. Smith oral history interview : Tape and transcript, 1983 February 3 [sound recording] / conducted by Marsha C. Martin. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122637243 Albert C. Smith (1906-1999) was born on April 5, 1906, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1926, and his PhD in 1933. In 1928, he became a staff member at the New York Botanical Garden. He made his first tropic...

Moss, E. H. 1892-1963.

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Maire, René, 1878-1949

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Johnston, I. J.

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Ward, F. Kingdon

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McKee, H. S. (Hugh Shaw), 1912-

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Greene, P. S.

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Marsh, Ernest G.

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Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.)

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Brass was born in Toowoomba, Queensland on May 27, 1900. He is especially known for his plant collecting in New Guinea. One of his interests was in the relationship between the floras of New Guinea and Australia. He collected plants for the Arnold Arboretum in New Guinea, 1925-1926 and in the Solomon Islands, 1932. Brass also took part in three expeditions to New Guinea led by Richard Archbold: 1933-34; 1936-37; and 1938-39. From 1939 to 1966 he was connected with the American Museum of Natural ...

Rollins, Reed C. (Reed Clark), 1911-1998

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Reed Clark Rollins was born in Lyman, western Wyoming on 7 December 1911, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 27, 1998. He was one of the most influential botanists of his generation. From the description of Papers of Reed Rollins, 1940-1998 (inclusive) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 175317158 Reed Clark Rollins (1911-1998), Director of the Gray Herbarium (1948-1978) and Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany (1954-1981) at Harvard University was one ...

Standley, Paul Carpenter, 1884-1963

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Paul Carpenter Standley (1884-1963) was born on March 21, 1884, in Avalon Missouri. Standley earned his bachelor and master degrees from New Mexico State College in 1907 and 1908 respectively. From 1908 to 1909, Standley served as an assistant botanist at the school, before joining the U.S. National Museum as a botanist in 1909. Standley served in that position until 1928. Standley also worked at the Field Museum in Chicago, and the Escuela Agricola Panamericana, before retiring to Honduras. He ...

Hosokawa, Tadaoki, 1563-1645

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Rose, J. N. 1862-1928.

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Hu, Shiu-ying

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Tsʻai, Hsi-tʻao, 1910-1981.

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Harbison, Charles Francis, 1904-

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Wood, C. E. (Clyde Edward)

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Harvard University. Herbaria.

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The Harvard Herbaria Building, located at 22 Divinity Ave., was built in 1954. The building links the Peabody Museum, Agassiz Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Herbarium, Farlow Herbarium, and the Biological Laboratories. Included in the Herbaria are what were once seven separate herbarium collections: the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, the Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames, the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, the Farlow Herbarium, the Gray Herbarium, and the New England Botanical C...

Thurber, George, 1821-1890

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Botanist on the Mexican Boundary Commission, 1850; he was a specialist on grasses. His herbarium was acquired by the Missouri Botanical Garden in the autumn of 1891. From the description of George Thurber papers, [184-?-189-]. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61773035 Thurber (Brown University, S.M.) was a chemist and self-educated botanist who served with the U.S. Boundary Commission, 1850-1854. He also edited American Agriculturist for 22 years...

Parry, C. C. 1823-1890.

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Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935

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Robinson (Harvard, A.B. 1887; Strassborg, Ph.D. 1889) became assistant to Sereno Watson at Gray Herbarium at Harvard, 1890-1892 and Curator after Watson's death in 1892. His published works include a revised edition of Asa Gray's Manual (1908), Flora of the Galapagos Islands (1902) and contributions to Gray's Synoptical Flora of North America (1895, 1897). From the description of Papers of Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, 1887-1934 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177499102 ...

Hers, Joseph.

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Rusby, Henry Hurd, 1855-1940

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Henry Hurd Rusby (1855-1940) was a physician and botanical explorer who was influential in the promotion of the the study of economic botany. He was one of the incorporators of the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and served as Honorary Curator of the Economic Botany Museum and on the Board of Managers from 1898 to 1933. He attended New York University Medical College, graduating in 1884. As Professor of Botany and Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy at Columbia College, he was instrumenta...

Suksdorf, Wilhelm Nikolaus, 1850-1932.

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Harvard Botanic Garden.

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Mueller, Cornelius Herman, 1909-

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Peck, M. E.

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Philippines. Bureau of Forestry

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Universitet trudi︠a︡shchikhsi︠a︡ Kitai︠a︡ imeni Sunʹ I︠A︡t-Sena

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Steinbach, José, d. 1931.

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Bussey Institution

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Bussey Institution was established by Harvard in 1869 as a school of agriculture and horticulture on land donated by Benjamin Bussey. Institute building and greenhouses were designed by Peabody & Stearns; construction began in 1871. Abolished as a school in 1931, Bussey became a center for research in genetics. After the land of the Institution was turned over to the Commonwealth of Mass., the Bussey Professorship of Biology was established. From the description of Drawings, 1925...

Williams, L.

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Weatherby, Charles Alfred, 1875-1949

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Weatherby (Harvard, A.B. 1897; A.M. 1898) was interested in botany and volunteered at Gray Herbarium during summers. In 1931 he became Assistant Curator; Senior Curator in 1937; and Research Associate upon his retirement in 1940. Weatherby is best known as a fern specialist, but also researched in other areas, such as botanical nomenclature. From the description of Papers of Charles Alfred Weatherby, 1893-1948 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177499575 ...

Wright, Charles, 1811-1885

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Wright (Yale University, B.A. 1835) taught, participated in several surveys and expeditions, and collected plants in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Cuba. He was botanist for the U. S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853-1855, and in 1871 accompanied a U. S. commission to Santo Domingo. From the description of Papers of Charles Wright, 1853-1871 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177499437 ...

Taam, Y. W.

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Purdom, William B., 1880-1921.

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Ching, Ren-Chang

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Deane, Walter, 1848-1930

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Deane (1848-1930) was educated at Harvard (A.B. 1870) and taught at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass. and Hopkinson School until 1895. From 1897 to 1907 he was Curator of William Brewster's ornithological museum and then pursued his botanical interests including: serving on several botanical visiting committees for Harvard, publishing articles, corresponding with botanists and collecting (both and herbarium and autographs of botanists). He also had ornithological interests and worked on: Brews...

Harley, Winnifred J.

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Gregg, John Richard.

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Lesoeur, Harde.

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Pursh, Frederick, 1774-1820

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Pursh studied horticulture in Dresden, Germany; participated in botanical explorations in the United States, 1805-1806; published a flora of North America (1813) while living in England; and returned to continue exploration in Canada. From the description of Manuscript by Frederick Pursh, 1810-1811 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177498952 Frederick Pursh was a botanist, horticulturist, and explorer. From the description of Journal of a botanical excu...

Clemens, Mary Strong, 1873-

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Pennell, Francis W. (Francis Whittier), 1886-1952

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Born August 4, 1886 into a Quaker family, Francis Pennell Whittier grew up on a farm outside Philadelphia. Because he was thought to be delicate, he was not expected to work on the farm, and his education took place at the Westtown School. He continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania, earning his B.S. in 1911 and his Ph.D. in 1913. During his doctoral work, Pennell was encouraged by the head of the botany department, John Macfarlane, to pursue the study of Scrophular...

Fendler, Augustus, 1813-1883

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Chung, H. H. 1892-

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Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830

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Elliott (Yale University, B.A. 1791) returned to South Carolina to operate a plantation in 1800. He also served in the state legislature (1796-1808); was bank president in Charleston, 1812-1830. Elliott was active in the founding of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina and served as its president from 1814-1830; he was presifdent of the Charleston Library Society; and he co-founded the Southern Review with Hugh Swinton Legare in 1828. In 1820 he was elected president of the U...

Schneider, Karl Camillo

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Wang, Chi-Wu, 1913-...

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Forrest, George, 1873-1932

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Li, Shizeng, 1882-1973

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Lundell, Cyrus Longworth, 1907-

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Handel-Mazzetti, Heinrich, Freiherr von, 1882-1940

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Harvard University. Gray Herbarium

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The Gray Herbarium originated with the gift of Asa Gray's herbarium and library to Harvard in 1864. Early curators and directors were Sereno Watson (1874-1892); Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1892-1935); and Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1935-1947). From the description of Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium, 179?-1965 (inclusive), 1840-1955 (bulk) [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177500161 The Gray Herbarium originated with the gift of Asa Gray's herbarium ...

Williams, Emile Francis, 1859-1929.

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