Papers, 1867-1935.
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Piper, Charles V. (Charles Vancouver), 1867-1926
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Title: Count British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000342.0x00037a American botanist. From the description of Papers, 1888-1926. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852938 Charles V. Piper was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1867. He grew up in Seattle, and attended the Territorial University of Washington until about 1892, although he had received his bachelo...
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
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Botanist, ardent supporter of Charles Darwin, first professor appointed to the faculty of the University of Michigan, and Professor of Botany at Harvard University. From the description of Asa Gray collection, 1871-1885. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68802268 Asa Gray is an American botanist. He was made Professor of Natural History at Harvard University in 1842 and held that position until 1873. He was the author of several works including Manual of the bota...
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...
Suksdorf, Wilhelm, 1850-1932
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Botanist, Bingen, Washington. From the description of Papers, 1867-1935. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852921 The long and complex, if outwardly simple, life of Wilhelm Suksdorf began in rural Germany, near Kiel, in 1850. At the age of eight he emigrated to northeastern Iowa with his family. He lived there until 1874. In 1876 he was enrolled in a science/agriculture course at the University of California. Before graduating, however, he lef...
Henderson, L. F. (Louis Fourniquet), 1853-1942
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Louis F. Henderson was born near Boston in 1853. He studied languages and botany at Cornell University and moved west after graduation, living in California and then in Oregon. He was a professor of botany at the University of Idaho and headed the Department of Botany at the University of Oregon. Henderson traveled extensively, collecting botanical specimens. He remained active in the field of botany into his 80s and died in 1942 at the age of 88. From the description of Louis F. Hen...
Beattie, R. Kent (Rolla Kent), 1875-
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A forest pathologist for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) from 1912-1945, Beattie (1875-1960) is notable for his studies of Northwest flora and chestnut blight. He spent three years in Asia for the USDA's Division of Forest Pathology surveying chestnut trees and related plants and gathering seeds to introduce disease-resitant strains to the United States. From the description of Rolla Kent Beattie photograph collection 1927-1949. (National Agricultural Library). WorldCat record i...
Eastwood, Alice, 1859-1953
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Eastwood was curator and later head of the Department of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences, 1849-1949. She was responsible for saving the Academy's type collection after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. While at the Academy, she carried out much collecting to build up the collection, published over 300 articles, and started a journal, Leaflets of Western botany. Her main botanical interests were west American Liliaceae and the genera Lupinus, Arctostaphylos and Castilleja. ...
Howell, Thomas, 1842-1912
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Thomas Jefferson Howell (b. October 8, 1842 – d. December 3, 1912), American botanist from Oregon.[1]:118–119[2] Howell is considered one of the top three self-taught botanists of his era for the Pacific Northwest; the other two being Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf and William Conklin Cusick....
