Records, 1938-1983.

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Records, 1938-1983.

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Records include constitution and bylaws; minutes; correspondence of officers including David Keck, 1953-1958, and Arthur J. Cronquist, 1958-1969; membership lists; subscription records; reports; and financial records of the ASPT, 1938-1983. Also included are correspondence, a report and map concerning the need for a bill to protect the area near the Mt. St. Helens volcanic eruption for biological research, 1982; and questionnaires: "A Survey of Resources in Systematic Botany in the U.S." ca.1960's-1970's, completed, returned to Patricia Holmgren at the New York Botanical Garden, and containing information about collections and personnel in herbaria. Questionnaires were produced and circulated by the Advisory Committee for Systematic Resources in Botany of the ASPT. Correspondents prominently represented include David M. Bates, C. Ritchie Bell, Wendell Holmes Camp, Lincoln Constance, Arthur J. Cronquist, Norman C. Fassett, Charles B. Heiser, Jr., Harold William Rickett, Reed Clark Rollins, Earl Edward Sherff, Arthur Clayton Smith, Robert F. Thorne, and Robert E. Woodson, Jr.

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Keck, David D. (David Daniels), 1903-

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American botanist. These herbarium specimen collecting records were kept during his tenure at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology at Stanford University. From the description of Field notebooks, 1925-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122332764 ...

American society of plant taxonomists

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The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is the U.S. National organization of plant taxonomists and was founded in 1937. From the description of Records, 1938-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155462105 ...

Woodson, Robert Everard 1904-1963

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Curator of the herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1948-1955 and 1958-1963; educated at Washington University; American systematic botanist specializing in the family Asclepidaceae. From the description of Robert Everard Woodson papers, 1927-1963. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61772677 From the description of Herbarium Curator (Robert Woodson) records, 1945-1967. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61773037 ...

Camp, W. H. (Wendell Holmes), 1904-1963

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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 h...

Heiser, Charles B. (Charles Bixler), 1920-

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Thorne, Robert, active 1885-

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Dr. Robert F. Thorne was born on July 13, 1920 in Spring Lake, New Jersey. He was educated through high school in Gulfport and St. Petersburg, Florida. He attended Dartmouth College, where he received a B.A. in Botany in 1941. For graduate work, he attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and earned an M.S. degree in Economic Botany (1943) and a Ph. D. in Economic Botany with a minor in Geomorphology (1949). During WWII, he served in the Army Air Forces, first at Hondo Navigation School, ...

Smith, Arthur Clayton, 1916-

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Bates, David Martin, 1934.

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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 ...

Holmgren, Patricia K

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Sherff, Earl Edward, 1886-1966

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Fassett, Norman C. (Norman Carter), 1900-1954

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N. C. Fassett, 1900-1954, was a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The earliest vegetation mapping in the area was done by Fassett and his colleagues and students, who during the period 1929 to 1952 published 37 "Preliminary Reports" and four books on Wisconsin plant families. From the description of Spring flora of vicinity of Madison, Wisconsin; a manual of the shrubs and herbs flowering before July first in Dane County, Devil's Lake, Baraboo, and the Dell...

Cronquist, Arthur

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Arthur Cronquist (1919-1992) was a plant taxonomist whose specialty was the Compositae. He was an expert on the intermountain and southwest flora of the United States. He was associated with the NYBG from 1943-1946 and from 1952-1992. He collaborated with Henry Allan Gleason on the "New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora" (1952) and "Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada" (1963). He was Director of Botany(1971-1974) and Senior Scientist (1974-1992). He wrot...

Constance, Lincoln, 1909-2001

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Bell, C. Ritchie

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Rickett, Harold William, 1896-....

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Botanist, author. From the description of Reminiscences of Harold William Rickett : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343039 Bibliographer, botanist. Rickett worked at the New York Botanical Garden from 1939-1963 as Bibliographer, Senior Curator of Botany, editor, and other positions. From the description of Oral history project interview transcripts, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record...