Notes by William Ruggles Gerard, 1886-1889 (inclusive).

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Notes by William Ruggles Gerard, 1886-1889 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40961350

Consists of Gerard's notes pertaining to the etymologies of generic names and letters to Asa Gray and Sereno Watson describing contents of the notes.

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Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Gerard, William R. (William Ruggles), 1841-1914.

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Gerard was proprietor of a drug store in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He began the study of fungi at a time when few American botanists had devoted attention to that group of plants, his first descriptions of new species appearing in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for October, 1873, before the publication of the earliest mycological papers of Burrill, Ellis, Farlow, or Morgan. In the following year he was one of the founders of the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Science, in whose Proceedings a...