The herbaria of New England, 1900-1902

Day, Mary Anna, 1852-1924

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Mary Anna Day was an American botanist, librarian and teacher. She was born in Nelson, New Hampshire on October 12, 1852. She taught in public schools in Massachusetts, 1871-1878 and became Librarian at the Gray Herbarium starting in 1893. She died January 27, 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 72....

Eggleston, W. W. (Willard Webster), 1863-

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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...

Andrews, Luman, 1839-1921.

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Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914

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William Whitman Bailey (1843-1914) held the position of botanist on the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel in 1867. Due to ill health, he was replaced in 1877 by Sereno Watson. Bailey went on to teach botany at Brown University becoming Professor of Botany in 1881. He retired in 1906. From the description of William Whitman Bailey papers 1867-1904. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 47060036 From the description of William Whitman Bai...

Brainerd, Ezra, 1844-1924

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President of Middlebury College. From the description of The early settlements of Middlebury, Vermont, from the original surveys and from recent measurements, 1886. (Sheldon Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 664776939 ...

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...

Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), 1863-

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James Franklin Collins worked as a silversmith from 1897-1899. During this time he began studying botany with W.W. Bailey, which led to his becoming part-time curator of the Brown University Herbarium starting in 1894. Collins switched to botany as a full-time career when he began teaching at Brown in 1899. From 1906-1911 he was head of the botany department at Brown. His interests shifted toward forest pathology, and he worked as a pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Brown, fr...

Bissell, Charles Humphrey.

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Cummings, Clara E. (Clara Eaton), 1855-1906

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Oakes, William S.

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Conant, Woodbury P.

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Elwell, Levi Harry.

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Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910

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Brewer went to Yale in 1848 to study soil analysis with J.P. Norton. He left to teach for two years, retuned and got his Ph. D. from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1852. After Yale he went to study in Heidelberg, Munich and Paris. In 1858 he was made professor of chemistry and geology at Washington College in Pennsylvania. From 1860-1864 Brewer was first assistant on the Geological Survey of California and undertook extensive botanical surveys of areas that were still largely unexplored. In ...

Blomberg, Carl Peter, 1748-1820

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Swan, Charles Walter.

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Faxon, Charles Edward, 1846-1918

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Faxon was born Jan. 21, 1846 in Roxbury, Mass. He was educated at the local public schools and graduated as a civil engineer in 1867 from the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge, Mass. An instructor in botany at the Bussey Institution from 1879-1884, he joined the Arnold Arboretum staff in 1882 as the assistant director. Faxon served the Arboretum for 36 years in many capacities, which included librarian, herbarium curator, and botanical illustrator for The silva of North America, Manual of ...

Burt, E. A. (Edward Angus), 1859-1939

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American botanist. Educated at Harvard University (A.M., 1894, Ph.D. 1895). Studied under William Farlow at the Cryptogamic Laboratories, Harvard, 1892-1893. Taught natural history at Middlebury College, 1895-1913 and at Washington University from 1913. Published Icones Farlowianae: Illustrations of the Larger Fungi of Eastern North America (Cambridge, 1929) together with William G. Farlow. From the description of Papers of Edward Angus Burt, 1895-1933 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCa...

Rich, William Penn.

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Tyler, John M. (John Mason), 1851-1929

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Tyler was born on May 18, 1851 in Amherst, Massachusetts, the son of Professor William Seymour Tyler. He graduated from Amherst College in 1873 and earned an M.A. from Amherst in 1876. He received a Ph. D. from Colgate in 1888. Tyler taught at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. From 1876 to 1879 he studied in Germany at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig. Upon his return to Amherst he was appointed to the faculty of Amherst College as Instructo...