Papers of Charles Alfred Weatherby, 1893-1948 (bulk).

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Rehder, Alfred, 1863-1949

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Kearney, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1874-1956

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Kearney was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1874, and educated at University of Tennessee and at Columbia University. He worked for the USDA Bureau of Plant Industry for majority of his career and is known for his botanical survey of Dismal Swamp, Virginia of 1898; his research on growth on alkali soils in the southeastern United States; his research on cotton and other members of the Malvaceae family in Egypt and in the southwestern United States. By 1901, he had published names for more than 40 ne...

Hitchcock, A.S. (Albert Spear), 1865-1935

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Albert Spear Hitchcock (1865-1935) was born in Owasso, Michigan, on September 4, 1865. He entered Iowa State Agricultural College, receiving his B.S. in 1884, and an M.S. in 1886. He joined the United States Department of Agriculture in 1901 as Assistant Agrostologist under Frank Lamson-Scribner. In 1905 he was put in charge of the grass herbarium and became Systematic Agrostologist. After 1928, he held the title of Principal Biologist in charge of Systematic Agrostology of the Department of Agr...

Hanmer, Charles C.

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Lorenz, Annie, 1879-1927.

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Malte, Malte Oscar, 1880-1933.

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St. John, Harold

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American botanist. From the description of Papers, 1912-1957. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852960 Harold St. John was an American botanist and taxonomist known for his book, List and Summary of the Flowering Plants of the Hawaiian Islands. He was born in 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1917. St. John was a well-known professor of Botany at University of Hawaii where he served as chair of the Botany Depart...

Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit. Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany. After working with the renowned botanist Asa Gray at Harvard, he returned to Michigan to teach horticulture and landscape gardening. In 1888, he came to Cornell to build a new curriculum in practical and experimental horticulture. In 1904, ...

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...

Knowlton, Clarence Hinckley.

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Johnson, Grace Phillips

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Griscom, Ludlow, 1890-1959

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Ornithologist and botanist, of New York, N.Y., and Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1907-1959. (Peabody Museum). WorldCat record id: 28416231 Ludlow Griscom, an ornithologist, was Research Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. From the description of Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071759 From the guide to the Ludlow Griscom papers, 1922-1961., (Division of ...

Croizat, Léon (1894-1982).

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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 ...

Davenport, Geo. E. (George Edward), 1833-1907

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Davenport is noted for his botanical avocations, especially his research on ferns, though he made his living in business. He joined the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1872; and by 1875 he had compiled a herbarium of North American ferns. Shortly after, Davenport began publishing articles on ferns, which he continued doing until his death, and also wrote on forestry and horticulture. From the description of Papers of George Edward Davenport, 1872-1907 (inclusive). (Unknown). W...

Clokey, Ira W. (Ira Waddell), 1878-1950

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Boivin, Bernard.

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Eaton, Alvah Augustus, 1865-1908.

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Eaton taught and farmed in both Massachusetts and California until poor health led him to become a florist. From 1902 until his death he was employed at the Ames Botanical Laboratory. He took work related field trips to Florida andd Europe during this period. Eaton's botanical research was focused on non-vascular cryptogams, grasses and orchids. From the description of Botanical papers of Alvah Augustus Eaton, 1899-1906 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 40879955 ...

Grimes, E. J. (Earl Jerome), 1893-

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Smith, Jesse Fowler, 1870-1962.

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Weatherby, Una Lenora, 1879-1957.

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Tilton, George Henry, 1845-1926.

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Graves, Edward Willis.

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Sanford, S. N. F., 1872-

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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 ...

Brace, John Pierce, 1793-1872

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American educator and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Litchfield, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1824 Nov. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131599 ...

Reed, Clyde Franklin, 1918-

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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...

Johnston, I. M. (Ivan Murray)

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Schaffner, John H. (John Henry), 1866-1939

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Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964

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Naturalist and author. From the description of Flowering plants of Kennicott's Grove : manuscript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132214 Donald Culross Peattie, author and botanist, was born in 1898 in Chicago. He was the son of journalist parents. His career was determined by a hiking trip in the Appalachians and a visit to the famous "glass flower" at Harvard. He studied botany at Harvard. Louise Redfield Peattie, author, was born in 190...

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 ...

Mackenzie, Kenneth K. (Kenneth Kent), 1877-

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Little, Elbert L. (Elbert Luther), 1907-2004

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Elbert Luther Little collected plants throughout North and South Americas circa 1927-1984, and was part of the Cinchona Project. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_113_pid_EACP112 ...

Woodward, Richard William, 1846-1931.

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Sage, John Hall.

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Churchill, Joseph Richmond, 1845-1933.

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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...

Barratt, Joseph, 1796-1882

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Stout, William

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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...

Kennedy, George G. (George Golding), 1841-1918

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Kennedy (Harvard University, A.B. 1864; M.D. 1867) after briefly practicing medicine, took over management of his father's business, and continued to study botany. He published articles, including a flora of Willoughby, Vt. (1904); developed a sizeable herbarium; and was active on the visiting committee of the Gray Herbarium and endowed the Library. From the description of Papers of George Golding Kennedy, 1864-1896 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177498615 ...

Tryon, Rolla Milton, 1916-

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Wherry, Edgar Theodore, 1885-

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"Edgar Theodore Wherry was born on September 10, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Friends Central School in 1902, he received a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in 1906 and a Ph.D. in Geology-Mineralogy in 1909. "He taught for five years as an assistant professor in the Geological Department of Lehigh University. In 1913, he became the assistant curator of mineralogy at the U.S. ...