Elmer Drew Merrill papers 1902-1958.

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Elmer Drew Merrill papers 1902-1958.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42306791

Collection documents Elmer Drew Merrill's life and career before and after his association with the New York Botanical Garden.

8 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

New York Botanical Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7448112

New York Botanical Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library

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Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956

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Elmer Drew Merrill was born in East Auburn, Maine in 1876 and died in 1956. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Maine in 1898 and his master's in 1904. In 1902 he went to the Philippines where he remained for 21 years as professor of botany at the University of the Philippines and director of the Bureau of Science at Manila. He was a director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard and administrator of the botanical collections there. Before coming to Harvard in 1935 he served as...