Albert Kellogg ( Eng. Albert Kellogg ; 1813–1887) is an American botanist and physician known for researching the flora of northern California, one of the seven founders of the California Academy of Sciences .
| Albert Kellogg | |
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| English Albert kellogg | |
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| Place of Birth | New Hartford ( Connecticut ) |
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| Place of death | Alamida ( California ) |
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| Scientific field | Botany |
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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 " Kellogg " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Albert Kellogg was born into the family of Isaac Kellogg ( Eng. Isaac Kellogg , 1782-1824) and Eng. Aurilla Barney (1792-1861), his elder brother George Kellogg ( English George Kellogg, 1812-1901 ) was a famous inventor. Clara Louise Kellogg American opera singer was his niece.
He received his initial education at a school in Wilbraham , Massachusetts . Then he entered the English. Transylvania University , in the city of Lexington (Kentucky) , which he graduated in 1834 and where he received a doctorate in medicine ( MD )
After graduation, he traveled to the western regions of the United States, explored trees growing in California. The results of his expeditions were published in 1845 by John Charles Freemont in Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842: and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44 US 28th Cong., 2d sess. Senate » [1]
Together with ornithologist John Audubon, Kellogg studied the nature of Texas immediately after his accession to the United States. For botanical purposes, he investigated the Pacific coast of South and North America from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska .
In 1853, Kellogg took part in the founding of the science museum on the west coast of the United States, the California Academy of Natural Sciences .
In 1867, as part of an expedition led by Professor George Davidson ( Eng. George Davidson 1825-1911 ), Kellogg explored Alaska as a botanist. On this expedition, he collected a large collection of plants from the US coast, which replenished the collections of the Smithsonian Institution , the Philadelphia and California Academy of Sciences. He was a supporter of attracting women to science, they were invited to work Alice Eastwood and the English. Katherine Brandegee .
Kellogg first described about 500 plant species on the west coast of North America.
A number of botanical taxa are named in honor of Albert Kellogg:
- genus Marenova family - Kelloggia Torr. ex Hook.f. (1873)
- many species [2] : Arracacia kelloggii ( A.Gray ) S. Watson , Atenia kelloggii ( A.Gray ) Greene , Carum kelloggii A.Gray , Deweya kelloggii A.Gray , Drudeophytum kelloggii ( A.Gray ) JMCoult. & Rose , Hemizonia kelloggii Greene , Lilium kelloggii Purdy , Perideridia kelloggii ( A.Gray ) Mathias , Poa kelloggii Vasey , Polygonum kelloggii Greene , Quercus kelloggii Newb. , Tauschia kelloggii ( A.Gray ) JF Macbr. , Velaea kelloggii JMCoult. & Rose and many others.
Printed Works
Albert Kellogg published the results of his many studies in various scientific journals. His most famous work, Forest Trees of California , contains descriptions of trees growing in California forests and drawings of many species of California oaks. These illustrations were used in a later work by West American Oaks [3] . At the end of his life, he planned a similar work devoted to conifers, however, this work remained unfinished.
- Some work
- Descriptions of new plants , volume 2 1868
- Descriptions of new plants from the Pacific states , 1873
- Forest trees of California , 1882
- Redwood and lumbering in California forests (with illustrations), 1884
See also
- Kellogg
Notes
- ↑ Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 ... John Charles Frémont, John Torrey, James Hall, United States. Army.Corps of Engineers
- ↑ See the list on IPNI.
- ↑ Green, Edward Lee “ Illustrations of West American oaks ” 1889, illustrator A. Kellogg