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Harold St. John-Career Synopsis and Bibliography Pacific Science (1979), vol. 33, no. 4 © 1980 by The University Press of Hawaii. All rights reserved Harold St. John-Career Synopsis and Bibliography Harold St. John was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 25 July 1892. He received the A.B. degree Cum Laude in 1914, the A.M. in 1915, and the Ph.D. in 1917, all from Harvard University. During his years in Cambridge he was also Assistant in Botany at Harvard and Radcliffe (1913-1915), Assistant Botanist for the Canadian Geological Survey (1915; 1917), and Assistant at Harvard's Gray Herbarium (1913-1917; 1919-1920). From 1920 to 1929 Dr. St. John was affiliated with the State College of Washington (now Washington State University), first as Assistant Professor of Botany (1920-1923) and subsequently as Associate Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (1923-1929). Dr. St. John taught at the University of Hawaii for twenty-nine years. He was Professor of Botany from 1929 to 1950, Senior Professor of Botany from 1950 to 1958, and served two terms as Chairman of the Botany Department (1929-1940; 1943-1954). In addition, he was Associate Director of the Manoa (now Lyon) Arboretum from 1953 to 1957, and served as Arboretum Director from 1957 to 1958. He was a Visiting Professor at Yale University from 1938 to 1939. After his retirement from the University of Hawaii, Dr. St. John held professorships at Chatham College, Pittsburgh (1958-1959), and at the Universite de Saigon and Universite de Hue in Vietnam (1959-1961). In 1963 he was Fulbright Professor at Cairo University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Linnean Society of London. His memberships include the Botanical Since 1929 Dr. St. John has been affiliated Society of America, Botanical Society of with the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Hono­ Japan (honorary), Hawaiian Academy of lulu, where today he continues his botanical Science, Hawaiian Botanical Society, New studies. He has also served on the Scientific England Botanical Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Advisory Committee of the Pacific Tropical Philadelphia Botanical Club, Sigma Xi, and Botanical Garden from its inception in 1971. the Torrey Botanical Club. He was President of the Hawaiian Botanical Society during BIBLIOGRAPHY 1932 and 1933, and of the Hawaiian ST. JOHN, HAROLD. 1915a. An insular variety Academy of Science in 1947 and 1948. of Solidago sempervirens. Rhodora 17: 26­ Founder and first editor of Research 27. Studies, State College ofWashington, Dr. St. 1915b. Rumex persicarioides and Its allies in John has also served on the Board of Editors North America. Rhodora 17: 73-83, I pI. of Pacific Science. 1915c. Elymus arenarius and its American He has made botanical explorations of representatives. Rhodora 17: 98-103. eastern Canada, the eastern and north­ 1916a. Botanical reconnaissance on the western United States, Hawaii, eastern north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, southeast­ Summary report of the Geological Survey ern Asia, the Indian Ocean, and tropical of Canada for the calendar year 1915: Africa. In 1943 and 1944, he served the 248-249. Foreign Economic Administration, United 1916b. Additional notes on Rhododendron States Government, as an explorer for qui­ maximum in New Hampshire. Rhodora nine in the Andes of Colombia. 18: 73-74. 435 436 PACIFIC SCIENCE, Volume 33, October 1979 1916c. A reVISIOn of the North American Torrey Bot. Club 52:461-472, fig. I; also species of Potamogeton of the section as Contrib. Dept. Bot., State College Coleophylli. Rhodora 18: 121-138. Wash. 1. 1917a. The status of Glyceria Fernaldii. 1927. Arnica cascadensis St. John nov. sp. Rhodora 19: 75-76. Rept. British Columbia Provo Mus. Nat. 1917b. Remarks on several North American Hist. for 1926:CIO. species of Alopecurus. Rhodora 19: 165­ 1928a. New plants from British Columbia. 167. Contrib. Bot. Dept., State College Wash. 1917c. Lycopodium Selago, var. Miyo­ 10; also in Rept. British Columbia ProVo shianum in North America. Amer. Fern J. Mus. Nat. Hist. for 1927:EI4-15. 7:121-122. 1928b. A revision of the loco-weeds of 1917d. Arenaria lateriflora and its varieties in Washington. Proc. BioI. Soc. Wash. 41: North America. Rhodora 19: 259-262. 97-106; also as Contrib. Bot. Dept., State 1918a. Additional wool waste plants. Rho­ College Wash. 12. dora 20: 20. 1928c. Revision of the genus Crocidium. 1918b. Spiranthes in Dover, Massachusetts. Torreya 28: 73-77; also as Contrib. Bot. Rhodora 20: 111-114. Dept., State College Wash. 14. 1918c. Further notes on Potamogeton. Rho­ 1928d. The desert pansy. Amer. Bot. 34: dora 20: 191-192. 89-94, 1 pI.; also as Contrib. Bot. Dept., 1919a. Phanerotaenia, a new genus of State College Wash. 15. Umbelliferae. Rhodora 21: 181-183. 1929a. Notes on northwestern ferns. Amer. 1919b. Two color forms of Lobelia cardinalis Fern J. 19:11-16; also as Contrib. Bot. L. Rhodora 21 :217-218. Dept., State College Wash. 17. I920a. The genus Elodea in New England. 1929b. A biological survey of the inland Rhodora 22: 17-29. empire. Northwest Sci. 3: 49-51. 1920b. Trillium rectistamineum, a valid I929c. The desert pansy. Wild Flower 6: 14, species of the southeastern United States. 1 pI. An extract and partial reprint of the Rhodora 22 :78-79. article that appeared in Amer. Bot. 1920c. A teratological specimen of Aralia I929d. Plants of the headwaters of the St. hispida. Rhodora 22: 152-153. John River, Maine. Res. Stud., State Col­ 1921a. A freak sweet clover. Rhodora 23: lege Wash. I: 28-58,2 pI., 1 map. 25-26. 192ge. New and noteworthy northwestern 1921b. Sable Island, with a catalogue of its plants, Part 2. Res. Stud., State College vascular plants. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Wash. I: 59-64; also as Contrib. Bot. Hist. 36: 1-103, 2 pI.; also as Contrib. Dept., State College Wash. 20. Gray Herb. n.s. 62. 1929f New and noteworthy northwestern 1921c. A tree-climbing woodchuck. J. Mam­ plants, Part 3. Res. Stud., State College malogy 2:207, pI. 15. Wash. 1:90-112, 3 figs., I pI.; also as 1921d. A critical revision of Hydrangea ar­ Contrib. Bot. Dept., State College Wash. borescens. Rhodora 23: 203-208. 22. 1922. A botanical exploration of the north 1929g. Calluna vulgaris, a recent adventive shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence includ­ on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. J. Bot. Brit. ing an annotated list of the species of For. 67: 306-307. vascular plants. Mem. Victoria Memorial 1931 a. New and noteworthy northwestern Mus., Can. Dept. Mines 126(BioI. Ser. 4): plants, Part 4. Proc. BioI. Soc. Wash. 44: i-iii, 1-30,6 pI., 2 maps. 29-36; also as Contrib. Bot. Dept., State 1923. William Conklin Cusick. Rhodora 25: College Wash. 26. 101-105, portrait. 1931b. New and noteworthy northwestern 1925a. Notes sur la Flore du Labrador. plants, Part 5. Res. Stud., State College Naturaliste Can. 51: 195-201. Wash. 2: 110-116, I map; also as Contrib. 1925b. A critical consideration of Bot. Dept., State College Wash. 29. Hagstrom's work on Potamogeton. Bull. 1931c. Reduction of Olsynium. Rept. Brit. Harold St. John-Career Synopsis and Bibliography 437 Columbia Provo Mus. Nat. Hist. for 1930: 1937c. Flora of southeastern Washington Cll-13, pI, X-XI; also as Contrib. Bot. and of adjacent Idaho. Student Book Dept., State College Wash. 32. Corp., Pullman, Wash. i-xxv, 531 pp., 1 1931d. Pilea bisepala St. John, sp. nov. B. P. colored map, figs. 1-11. Bishop Mus. Bull. 86: 42-45, pI. III, fig. 2. 1937d. A pilgrimage to the home of Lin­ 1931e. Additions to the flora of Niihau. B. P. naeus. Little Gardens 8: 5-7,2 pI. Bishop Mus. Occ. Pap. 9(14): 1-11, 3 pI. 1937e. A new Thalictrum from Mt. Rainier, 1932. Notes on Pritchardia. B. P. Bishop Washington. Madrono 4: 114-115, I fig. Mus., Occ. Pap. 9(19): 1-5. 19371 Position systematique de Pelea ma­ 1933a. Lysimachia, Labordia, Scaevola, and dagascarica (Rutacees) et revision du Pluchea. Hawaiian Plant Stud. 1. B. P. genre Humblotidendron. Notul. Syst. Bishop Mus., Occ. Pap. 10(4): 1-10,1 fig., (Paris) 6: 125-129. 1 pI. 1938. Linnaeus, the first modern botanist. 1933b. The sausage tree. Paradise Pac. 46: Bull. to Schools, Univ. State New York 5-6,3 pI. 24(14). 5 pp., 3 pI. 1934a. Panicum, Zanthoxylum, Psychotria, 1939a. New Hawaiian species of Clermontia, and Sicyos. Hawaiian Plant Stud. 2. B. P. including a revision of the Clermontia BishopMus.,Occ.Pap.10(12):1-7,figs.1, grandiflora group. Hawaiian Plant Stud. 6. 2. B. P. Bishop Mus., Occ. Pap. 15(1): 1-19, 1934b. Planchonella Grayana St. John, new fig. 1, pI. 1-6. name. B. P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 120: 38-39. 1939b. New Hawaiian Lobeliaceae. Hawai­ 1935a. Coprosma. (Description of 2 new sp. ian Plant Stud. 7. B. P. Bishop Mus., Occ. and 3 new var.) In W. R. B. Oliver, ed. Pap. 15(2):21-35, pI. 1-7. The genus Coprosma. B. P. Bishop Mus. 1940a. Hawaiian plants named by Endlicher Bull. 132. in 1836. Hawaiian Plant Stud. 8. B. P. 1935b. Mangarevan Expedition. Report of Bishop Mus., Occ. Pap. 15(22): 229-238. Harold St. John, botanist. B. P. Bishop 1940b. Ophioglossum, Rollandia, and Mus. Bull. 133: 56-58. Scaevola. Hawaiian Plant Stud. 9 B. P. 1935c. Hawaiian Panicum, Metrosideros, Bishop Mus., Occ. Pap. 15(28):351-359, Sanicula, Lobelia and Rollandia. B. P. fig. 1. Bishop Mus., Occ. Pap. 11(13):1-18,6 1940c. Itinerary of Hugh Cuming in Poly­ figs., 3 pI. nesia. B. P. Bishop Mus., Occ. Pap.
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