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Dedicated the Memory ELMER DREW MERRILL
Dedicated to the memory of ELMER DREW MERRILL Dedication The completion of the sixth volume of this Flora gives me the privilege to dedicate this to the memory of ELMER DREW MERRILL, a man who has achieved more for the knowledge of the Malesian flora than individual botanist. any other It is neither my intention to give nor is it the proper place for a full biography of this most distinguished American scientist, as it would for the greater part be duplication of his own ROBBINS and the vivid life sketch ‘Autobiographical’ (1953), the scholarly essay by (1958), by SCHULTES (1957), which together give the story of his life, his ambitions, his personality, his immense drive, his multiple interests, his capacity for establishing botanical periodicals as well as of successfully filling the posts of Dean of a Faculty of Agriculture, director the Bureau of Science at Manila, directorofthe New York BotanicalGardens, and administrator of Botanical Collections of Harvard University. It is my purpose to review MERRILL'S aims and vision, ambitions and achievements in the light of his time, to explain the value ofhispioneer works for Indo-Malesianbotany, how he used opportunities and had to bow to unforeseen events and circumstances which in no mean way influenced his career. Naturally MERRILL'S personality pervades the story, that of a straight- forward, righteous person, unbiassed in scientific matters, appreciating any progress in bio- logical science. It is of course especially his great achievements with regard to the knowledge of the Malesian florawhich are the main theme and I will try to elucidate several aspects which he pursued. -
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ISSN 1409-3871 VOL. 9, No. 1—2 AUGUST 2009 Orchids and orchidology in Central America: 500 years of history CARLOS OSSENBACH INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ORCHIDOLOGY LANKESTERIANA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ORCHIDOLOGY Copyright © 2009 Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica Effective publication date: August 30, 2009 Layout: Jardín Botánico Lankester. Cover: Chichiltic tepetlauxochitl (Laelia speciosa), from Francisco Hernández, Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus, Rome, Jacobus Mascardus, 1628. Printer: Litografía Ediciones Sanabria S.A. Printed copies: 500 Printed in Costa Rica / Impreso en Costa Rica R Lankesteriana / International Journal on Orchidology No. 1 (2001)-- . -- San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001-- v. ISSN-1409-3871 1. Botánica - Publicaciones periódicas, 2. Publicaciones periódicas costarricenses LANKESTERIANA i TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Geographical and historical scope of this study 1 Political history of Central America 3 Central America: biodiversity and phytogeography 7 Orchids in the prehispanic period 10 The area of influence of the Chibcha culture 10 The northern region of Central America before the Spanish conquest 11 Orchids in the cultures of Mayas and Aztecs 15 The history of Vanilla 16 From the Codex Badianus to Carl von Linné 26 The Codex Badianus 26 The expedition of Francisco Hernández to New Spain (1570-1577) 26 A new dark age 28 The “English American” — the journey through Mexico and Central America of Thomas Gage (1625-1637) 31 The renaissance of science -
Maine State Legislature
MAINE STATE LEGISLATURE The following document is provided by the LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library http://legislature.maine.gov/lawlib Reproduced from scanned originals with text recognition applied (searchable text may contain some errors and/or omissions) Public Documents of Maine: BEING THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE VARIO US Public Officers and Institutions FOR THE YEAR 1896. VOLUME II. AUGUSTA KENNEBEC JOURNAL PRINT 1897 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MAINE STATE COLLEGE FOR THE "YE.AB 1895 PART I PART I-Reports of Trustees, President, and Treasurer. PART II-Report of the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. _AUGUSTA: BURUJIGH & l<'LYNT, PRINTERS TO THE STATJlJ 1896. CONTENTS OF PART I. PAGE REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES,.. .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT: The Faculty,.... 8 The Students, .......................... ·.... 10 New Courses of Study,...................................... 10 The Summer School, . 11 The Winter Courses in Agriculture,.. 12 Our Courses for Women, . 12 The Kappa Sigma House,.......................... .. .. 13 The State Appropriation,.... 14. Repairs to Oak Hall, . 14 General Repairs and Changes, . 16 Fires,....... 17 The (}rounds,. 18 The I,ibrary, . 18 New Equipment, ..................................... , . 18 The Commencement,.. 19 College Publications,.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 20 Alumni List, ............ , ...................... · , , . · ... · ... · 21 The Comn1ons, ........................ -
Native Vascular Flora of the City of Alexandria, Virginia
Native Vascular Flora City of Alexandria, Virginia Photo by Gary P. Fleming December 2015 Native Vascular Flora of the City of Alexandria, Virginia December 2015 By Roderick H. Simmons City of Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks, and Cultural Activities, Natural Resources Division 2900-A Business Center Drive Alexandria, Virginia 22314 [email protected] Suggested citation: Simmons, R.H. 2015. Native vascular flora of the City of Alexandria, Virginia. City of Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks, and Cultural Activities, Alexandria, Virginia. 104 pp. Table of Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Climate ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Geology and Soils .................................................................................................................... 3 History of Botanical Studies in Alexandria .............................................................................. 5 Methods ............................................................................................................................................ 7 Results and Discussion .................................................................................................................... -
E. D. Merrill, from Maine to Manila
E. D. Merrill, From Maine to Manila Ida Hay Twenty-two years of adventure in Southeast Asia preceded E. D. Merrill’s career as director of several important botanical institutions, among them the Arnold Arboretum. His knowledge of the flora of Asia and the South Pacific was encyclopedic, and it was said he could name more species at sight than any other American taxonomist. When twenty-six-year-old Elmer Drew Merrill without having found any gold. Merrill’s father left New York harbor for Manila on February 22, had run away to sea at age fourteen and worked 1902, he had no idea that he would remain in as a common sailor until he married; he contin- the Philippines for the next twenty-two years, ued to sign on for extended fishing trips to the laying the foundation for a botanical inventory Grand Banks during E. D.’s youth. It was the of the archipelago. After accepting a job offer as work and the pleasures of rural life that shaped botanist with the Insular Bureau of Agriculture, Merrill’s character, as he recalled years later: he had had less than forty-eight hours to arrange Swimming, boating, fishmg, hunting, trampmg his affairs, pack, and get to the boat. This rough- in the woods-many things were more appealing and-ready approach, spawned of a rigorous to us than work, but when there was work to be childhood in rural Maine, was to characterize done it always came fmst. "’ Merrill’s remarkable life: this would not be the Yet even at an early age he often found time to last time he made a career at the major change collect natural history specimens and to press drop of a hat. -
Supplemental Data Russell J
East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University ETSU Faculty Works 1-2017 Supplemental Data Russell J. Ingram University of Georgia Foster Levy East Tennessee State University, [email protected] Cindy L. Barrett East Tennessee State University James T. Donaldson East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/faculty_works Part of the Biology Commons, Botany Commons, Plant Biology Commons, and the Plant Pathology Commons Recommended Citation Ingram, Russell J.; Levy, Foster; Barrett, Cindy L.; and Donaldson, James T., "Supplemental Data" (2017). ETSU Faculty Works. 1. https://dc.etsu.edu/faculty_works/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in ETSU Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A B C D E F G 1 Gray's Lily Disease Herbarium Study 2013; 3 positive for P. inconspicua = lines 71, 141, 193 (bold red text) 2 forma rubra treated as canadense 3 4 Herbarium Collector Annotations & Notes / Comments ID# Species Year-mmdd State, County L. grayi S. Watson. J.R. Massey, R.D. Whetstone, UNC Chapel Hill. Ecological atlas of threatened and Tom Govus and Dan endangered vascular plants of North 5 WCU 16011 Pittillo 164; BLRI-11338 Carolina. III 1978. 1 grayi 1977-0709 VA, Floyd ! J.R. Massey, R.D. Whetstone, UNC Chapel Hill. Ecological atlas of threatened and endangered vascular plants of North Carolina. III 1978.; ! L.L. Gaddy for the USFS, Endangered and threatened plant survey of the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests, 6 WCU 7634 I.W. -
Northwest Botanical Manuscripts.Pdf (6.428Mb)
NORTHWEST BOTANI CAL MANUSCRIPTS An Indexed Register of the Papers, 1867-1.957, of Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf, William Conklin Cusick, Charles Vancouver Piper, Rolla Kent Beattie, and Harold St. John in the WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Pullman 1976 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 3 Introduction 5 Wilhelm N. Suksdorf Papers 15 William C. Cusick Papers 22 Charles V. Piper Papers 24 R. Kent Beattie Papers 28 Harold St. John Papers 35 Index to the Correspondence 38 Z Washington (State). State University, Pullman. Library. 5358 Northwest botanical manuscripts: an indexed register US of the papers, 1867-1957, of Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf, W3 William Conklin Cusick, Charles Vancouver Piper, Rolla Kent Beattie and Harold St. John in the Washington State Univer sity Library. Pullman, Wash., 1976. 64 p. illus. 27 em. 1. Botany--Bibl@ 2. Beattie, Rolla Kent, 1875-1960--Bibl. 3. Cusick, William Conklin, 1842-1922--Bibl. 4. Piper, Charles Vancouver, 1867-1926--Bibl. 5. St. John, Harold, 1895- --Bibl. 6. Suksdorf, Wilhelm Nikolaus, 1850-1932 --Bibl. I. Title" Copyright 1976 by Washington State University All rights are reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical essays or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording, or by any informational storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, Washington State University Library. PREFACE Beginning in 1965, the Washington State University Library has prepared a series of publications designed to make known the character and contents of its major manuscript holdings in a format accessible to scholars throughout the world. -
Nature, Colonial Science and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Philippines
561 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51(4), pp 561–578 December 2020. © The National University of Singapore, 2021 doi:10.1017/S0022463420000703 Nature, colonial science and nation-building in twentieth-century Philippines Ruel V. Pagunsan This article examines colonial nature-making in twentieth century Philippines. It par- ticularly looks into natural history investigations of the American-instituted Bureau of Science and the ways in which it created a discursive authority for understanding the Philippine natural environment. These biological investigations, the article argues, did not only structure the imperial construction of the colony’s nature, but also provided a blueprint for imagining notions of national integration and identity. The article inter- rogates the link between colonial scientific projects and nation-building initiatives, emphasising the scripting of the archipelago’s nature and the creation of a national science through biological spaces. In the aftermath of the Pacific War in the Philippines that brought ‘total destruction’ to the country’s ‘exceedingly valuable and irreplaceable natural history collections’, Eduardo Arguelles Quisumbing (1895–1986), the longest-serving director of the Philippine National Museum (PNM), embarked on a ‘colossal’ mission to rebuild the Natural History Museum of the newly independent Philippines. He rendered a sense of national urgency to the mission, arguing that the museum was an essential ‘repository’ not only for scientific specimens but also, and more importantly, for ‘the Philippine cul- ture’.1 As director of the PNM from 1934 to 1961, utilising his official and overseas con- nections, he headed the relentless project of collecting, mounting and identifying natural history materials, in particular botanical specimens. -
American Horticulturist Volume 71, Number 10 October 1992
American Horticulturist Volume 71, Number 10 October 1992 , ARTICLES EI Capitan de las Flores by Diane Jukofsky .......... .. ................ ..... .. 12 Texan-turned-Costa Rican Claude Hope revolutionized the world of hybrid annuals. The Sage of Salvi as by Tovah Martin .. .... .. .. .. ........ .. ..... ...... 20 Amateur breeder Richard Dufresne is the self-appointed public relations man for these members of the mint family. Solace for a President by Barbara McEwan . ..... ..... ...... ...... 26 For John Quincy Adams, plants offered an escape from a job in which he was miserable. OCTOBER'S COVER The Many-Hued Lupines Photographed by Al Bussewitz: by Errol Craig Sul/ . 34 PHOTOINATS These historically fascinating legumes have yet to secure The trunk of the dawn redwood, a place in Amgrican gardens. Metasequoia glyptostroboides, is buttressed and fluted at the base. A Tree History: The Dawn Redwood Its reddish brown bark turns gray by Susan Sand ... .. .. ..... ..... ... ........ ... ... 40 as it ages and exfoliates in narrow Once widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, strips. While the tree's eventual 70-to-120-foot height makes it its survival was in jeopardy a half-century ago. impractical for many landscape uses, it makes a beautiful specimen on a large open lawn. Beginning on page 40, the latest in a series of DEPARTMENTS tree histories by Susan Sand details the dawn redwood's rescue from Commentary ......... .. .... .. ...................... 4 near extinction. Letters ................................................ 5 Offshoots . ....... .. ... ..... .. ...... ........... 6 Book Reviews .......................................... 9 Classifieds . ...... ... ......... .... ... ............. 44 Pronunciations ..... ... .... .......... ....... ....... 46 American Horticultural Society The American HorticuLturaL Society seeks COMMENTARY to promote and recognize excellence in horticuLture across America. OFFICERS 1991-1992 n this age of Orwellian doublespeak, Mr. George C. -
American Colonial Culture in the Islamic Philippines, 1899-1942
Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 2-1-2016 12:00 AM Civilizational Imperatives: American Colonial Culture in the Islamic Philippines, 1899-1942 Oliver Charbonneau The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr. Frank Schumacher The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in History A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Oliver Charbonneau 2016 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Asian History Commons, Cultural History Commons, Islamic World and Near East History Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Charbonneau, Oliver, "Civilizational Imperatives: American Colonial Culture in the Islamic Philippines, 1899-1942" (2016). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 3508. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3508 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i Abstract and Keywords This dissertation examines the colonial experience in the Islamic Philippines between 1899 and 1942. Occupying Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago in 1899, U.S. Army officials assumed sovereignty over a series of Muslim populations collectively referred to as ‘Moros.’ Beholden to pre-existing notions of Moro ungovernability, for two decades military and civilian administrators ruled the Southern Philippines separately from the Christian regions of the North. In the 1920s, Islamic areas of Mindanao and Sulu were ‘normalized’ and haphazardly assimilated into the emergent Philippine nation-state. -
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Making Mutations
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 2010 PREPRINT 393 Luis Campos and Alexander von Schwerin (eds.) Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts Table of Contents The Making of “Making Mutations”.........................................................................................3 Alexander von Schwerin & Luis Campos Identifying Mutation Women in Mutation Studies: The Role of Gender in the Methods, Practices, and Results of Early Twentieth-Century Genetics ......................................................................................11 Marsha L. Richmond Mutant Sexuality: The Private Life of a Plant.........................................................................49 Luis Campos Generating Plants and Women: Intersecting Conceptions of Biological and Social Mutations in Susan Glaspell's “The Verge” (1921)................................................................71 Jörg Thomas Richter Non-Evolutionary Mutants? A Note on the Castorrex Rabbit ................................................85 Thierry Hoquet Organisms Tracing the Totsuzen in Tanaka's Silkworms: An Exploration of the Establishment of Bombyx Mori Mutant Stocks................................................................................................ 109 Lisa A. Onaga Supporting the Balance View: Dobzhansky’s Construction of Drosophila pseudoobscura ...................................................................................................................... 119 Matt Dunn The First -
PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN a Publication of the Botanical Societyof America, Inc
PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN A Publication of the Botanical Societyof America, Inc. VOLUME 2 OCTOBER. 1956 NUMBER" golden Jubilee Merit Citations (At the 50th anniversary banquet, held on August AGNES CHASE, one of the world's outstanding agrostologists and 29th at Univ. of Conn., President Creighton presented preeminent among American students in this field. Certificates of Merit to the distinguished botanists whose JENS CHRISTIAN CLAUSEN. for his work towawrd the improve- names appear below for their contributions to botany. ment of our understanding of the nature and origin of plant As she read each name, the President read also the ci- species. tation following each name. Chairman of the com- mittee which selected the recipients of these citations RALPH ERSKINE CLELAND. for his extensive researchesinto the species relationships and segmental interchange problems in was B. S. Meyer.) Oenothera and also for his statesmanship in representing plant HENRY ARDELL ALLARD. for his pioneer investigations of photo- science at the national level. periodism in plants and for his long continued contributions HENRY SHOEMAKER CONARD. taxonomist. morphologist. mycolo- to our knowledge of this phenomenon and to other areas of botanical science. gist. ecologist. bryologist. shining proof that versatility may serve only to multiply excellences. and above all a beloved EDGAR.ANDERSON, for his extensive contributions to the general teacher. problems of evolution; including tbe species problem, self- sterility, and particularly his sponsorship of tbe idea of intro- WILLIAM SKINNER COOPER, one of the creators of an American gressive hybridization. tradition in ecology. His deep feeling for the relatedness and parallel developments of geology, physiology, taxonomy and DIXON LLOYD BAILEY, discerning analyst and interpreter of the vegetation sciencehas been a guiding light to a whole generation.