Letter to Thomas Morong, 1874-1888 (inclusive).

Hill, Ellsworth Jerome, 1833-1917.

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Faxon, Edwin, 19223-1898.

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Allen, Timothy Field, 1837-1902

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Timothy Field Allen (1837-1902) was a botanist whose specialty was the Characeae family of aquatic green algae. From the description of Timothy Field Allen papers 1870-1900. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 47220281 ...

Tiselius, Gustaf August, 1833-1904

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Bingham, Caroline

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Collins, Frank S. (Frank Shipley), 1848-1920

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Frank Shipley Collins was a botanist and was an authority on American algae. From the description of Papers, 1872-1919. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440303 The botanist Frank Shipley Collins (1848-1920) was an authority on American algae. He spent his life in Massachusetts where he worked for the Malden Rubber Shoe Company for over three decades. Despite the fact that Collins’ formal education never extended beyond high school...

Langlois, A. B. (Auguste Barthélemy), 1832-1900

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Macoun, John, 1831-1920

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Millichamp, Joseph Hinson, 1829-1903.

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Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude

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Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton (1857-1934) was a bryologist, educator and one of the founders of the New York Botanical Garden. She served as Honorary Curator of Mosses from 1912-1929. she was born Elizabeth Gertrude Knight in New York City on January 9, 1857. After graduating from Normal School (Hunter College) in 1875, she taught Natural Science there until her marriage to Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1885. She was active in the Torrey Botanical Club as Curator of Mosses (1884-1885) and editor...

Pringle, Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey), 1838-1911

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Cyrus G. Pringle (1838-1911) was an American botanist who spent his career cataloging the plants of North America, especially in Mexico. He was born on May 6, 1838 in East Charlotte, Vermont. He enrolled at the University of Vermont but had to leave after a semester when his older brother died, so he could run the farm. He did fight in the Civil War, but was discharged after a short time. He went back to the farm and continued his work as a plant breeder where experimented with crops such as cor...

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, ...

Tuckerman, Edward, 1817-1886

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Edward Tuckerman was a botanist who specialized in lichen of North America. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_622_pid_EACP619 Tuckerman, eldest son of Edward Tuckerman, a Boston merchant, and Sophia (May) Tuckerman, was born in Boston in 1817. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Union College in 1837 and 1844 respectively and his L.L.B. and A.B. from Harvard University in 1839 and 1847 respectively. Tuckerman married Sarah Eliza S...

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....

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...

Curtiss, Allen Hiram, 1845-1907.

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Allen Hiram Curtiss was a botanist who collected in Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_285_pid_EACP282 ...

Morong, Thomas, 1827-1894.

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Morong (Amherst College, B.A. 1848; Andover Theological Seminary, 1853)served as minister to several congregations in Massachusetts towns. He developed an interest in botany through acquaintances, William Oakes and James W. Robbins and resigned from his Ashland, Mass. church to travel in Paraguay, Argentina and Chile to collect plants. He was Curator of Columbia University Herbarium, 1890-1894. From the description of Letter to Thomas Morong, 1874-1888 (inclusive). (Harvard Universit...

Fletcher, James, 1852-1908

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Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934

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Nathaniel Britton worked on plant varieties from Central and South America. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_170_pid_EACP167 Nathaniel Lord Britton (1857-1934) was a leading founder and first Director of the New York Botanical Garden. He was born at New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. in Geology from Columbia College in 1881 where he studied with John Strong Newberry. In 1886 he was named Professor of Geology and...

Bennett, Arthur 1843-1929

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Porter, Thomas C. (Thomas Conrad), 1822-1901

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Alumnus, Class of 1840. From the description of Addresses, reprints, etc. 1850-1897. (Lafayette College). WorldCat record id: 34208923 Thomas Conrad Porter, botanist, theologian, educator, and poet, was a professor of botany, geology, and zoology at Lafayette College from 1866-1896. Porter's scientific work focused primarily on the plants of Pennsylvania. Most of his research and collection of plants and minerals were destroyed in the Pardee fire, June 4, 1879. F...

Patterson, Harry N. (Narry Norton), 1853-1919.

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Cratty, Robert Irwin.

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Robbins, James Watson, 1801-1879.

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Robbins (Yale University, B.A. 1822; M.D. 1828) practiced medicine in Uxbridge, Mass. and also collected plants, concentrating on the study of Potamogeton. He authored the Potamogeton section of the fifth edition of Gray's Manual. From the description of Papers of James Watson Robbins, 1828-1880 (inclusive), 1863-1868 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 175317152 James W. Robbins (1801-1879) was born in Colebrook, Connecticut. He received his bachelor's and master's degre...

Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915

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Professor of Botany at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Letters, 1891-1895, to Samuel Bonsall Parish. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122289356 Episcopal cleryman, convert to Catholicism, and botanist who taught at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Catholic University of America (1885-1904) and served as an associate in botany at the Smithsonian Institution (1904-1909); LL.D., University of Notre Dame (1895). From the d...

Watson, Sereno, 1826-1892

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Watson was graduated from Yale University (1847) and later studied chemistry and minerology at Sheffield Scientific School. He joined Clarence King's expedition to survey the 40th parallel, and wrote the botanical report (1871) for the expedition. Watson was appointed assistant in the Gray Herbarium in 1873; Curator, 1874-1892; and Instructor in Phytogeography, 1881-1884. His published works include contributions to Botany of California, Manual of the Mosses of North America, and a revision of G...