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...Howard’s laboratory. Over the course of five decades, he traveled to far-flung places all over the globe, but was best known for his research in the Caribbean, which produced a six-volume work entitled Flora of the Lesser Antilles, the most extensive record of plant life in the region to date...
...travels also involved collecting plant specimens around volcanoes...
...Howard and his son, Bruce, who was in high school at the time, took a trip to the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat in search of a now-extinct plant...
...remember trekking all day up the volcano. It was smoking, steaming at that point,” Bruce R. Howard said. “And he had me out front searching for this plant. I had no idea what it looked like...
...point during the expedition, Bruce Howard said he pointed to a plant near the rim of the volcano. To his father’s delight, the find turned out to be a new species of flowering plant...