Edward Lee Greene ( English Edward Lee Greene , 1843-1915) - American botanist , taxonomist and collector of plants; historian of science .
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| Date of Birth | August 20, 1843 |
| Place of Birth | English Hopkinton , Rhode Island |
| Date of death | November 10, 1915 (72 years old) |
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| A country | USA |
| Scientific field | Botany |
| Place of work | Smithsonian Institution |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Greene " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Educated in English. Albion College ( Wisconsin ) in 1866. Since 1871 he was a priest and lectured on botany in English. Jarvis Hall and the University of California at Berkeley .
In 1885, he refuses the dignity of a priest and devotes himself to teaching. Until 1887, he was a professor of botany at the University of California, in 1887-1888, he was an assistant professor of the Department of Botany, and an adjunct professor of botany; since 1890, he was a professor of botany at Berkeley.
In 1895, he received his doctorate in law from the University of Notre Dame , Indiana, and moved to the Catholic University of America , Washington, DC , where he became the first professor of botany at the school and founded the Botanical Garden . After, from 1904 until the end of his life, he worked at the Smithsonian Institution .
His scientific work was related to the study of the flora of the western United States. He published a large number of works on botany and the history of natural science , including the periodicals Pittonia (1887-1905), and Erythea (published since 1893).
Works
- “ Illustrations of West American oaks ” illustrator A. Kellogg San Francisco , 1889
- “ Flora Franciscana. An attempt to classify and describe the vascular plants of middle California » San Francisco , Cubery & Co., 1891 [1]
- " Manual of the Botany of the Region of San Francisco Bay " San Francisco , Cubery & Co., 1894
- Plantae Bakerianae , 1901
- “ Pittonia: a series of papers relating to botany and botanists ” (in five parts) Berkeley , Doxey & Co. 1887-1905
- " Leaflets of botanical observation and criticism " (in two parts) Washington, DC , 1903-1912
- " Landmarks of botanical history: a study of certain epochs in the development of the science of botany " (in two parts)
- Part I. - Prior to 1562 AD Washington, DC , Smithsonian institution, 1909 [4]
- " Carolvs Linnaevs " Philadelphia , Christopher Sower company, 1912
Literature
- Willis Linn Jepson Edward Lee Greene the Individual The University of Notre Dame / American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jul., 1943), pp. 3-5