Word: botanist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Edwin Mead Wilcox, S. B. (Ohio State Univ.) 1896; Assistant Botanist at Ohio State University, 1894-97; I. year Graduate School. To study Botany...
...Seaton was born at Indianapolis, and was a graduate of Wabash College where he was deeply interested in the study of botany. In 1891 he received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Indiana and the same year accompanied, as botanist, a scientific expedition to Mexico. In 1892 he was appointed assistant curator at the Gray Herbarium. He leaves unfinished work of a high character; work which gave promise of a distinguished future...
...trustees of Lake Forest University at Chicago have elected Dr. John M. Coulter, now president of the Indiana University as president of Lake Forest University to succeed Rev. Dr. W. T. Roberts. Dr. Coulter has an international reputation as a descriptive botanist and instructor...
...Hartford. In 1867 he went to California, and, shortly after, entered the service of the Geological Expedition for the exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. At first he was employed as one of the topographers, but on the resignation of Mr. W. W. Bailey, now of Providence, he became Botanist to the Survey. He examined the plants which were collected, first at New Haven in Professor Eaton's Herbarium, and afterwards at Cambridge. From 1870 he resided in Cambridge, attached to the Gray Herbarium, and, on Dr. Gray's death, took charge of the Herbarium, continuing Dr. Gray's systematic work...
...what might he called a "natural" worker. He was the first to break away from the old idea of classification and adopt a more natural one. His clearly written books show him again as a lover of the natural. Besides being a botanist, Dr. Gray was a great thinker. He worked out the philosophy of the origin of the species even before Darwin, and Darwin called him "the first of any American in the development of his judicial sense...