Bassett Maguire ( English Bassett Maguire [1] [2] [3] , August 4, 1904 - February 6, 1991 ) - American botanist [3] .
| Bassett Maguire | |
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| English Bassett maguire | |
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| Date of Birth | August 4, 1904 |
| Place of Birth | Alabama , United States |
| Date of death | February 6, 1991 (86 years) |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York , USA |
| A country | USA |
| Scientific field | botany |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards and prizes | [d] ( 1965 ) |
| Systematic wildlife | |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are complemented by the abbreviation “ Maguire ” . A list of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
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Biography
Bassett Maguire was born in Alabama on August 4, 1904. [2] He was the son of Charles Thomas and Rose Bassett Maguire. [2]
Bassett enrolled in high school in Savannah, Georgia, and in the summer months of 1921–1923 was involved in commercial shipping as a seaman, sailor and quartermaster [2] .
In 1923, he entered the University of Georgia and three years later received a bachelor's degree with honors in botany and zoology [2] .
In 1927, Basset Maguire was appointed head of the Science Department at a secondary school in Georgia; realizing the need for graduate school, he received a teaching post as part-time assistant in botany at Cornell University in 1927 [2] . By 1931, Bassett completed the course requirements, but not his dissertation, when he was offered the post of assistant professor of botany at Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah [2] . In Utah, he developed the Intermountain Herbarium and served as its main collector and curator until 1942 [2] .
In January 1943, Basset Maguire visited the New York Botanical Garden, where he was supposed to work on the flora of Utah [2] . By July, he was appointed curator, and then worked in the New York Botanical Garden in many positions: as curator ( 1943 - 1958 ), chief curator ( 1958 - 1961 ), assistant director ( 1968 - 1969 ), senior researcher ( 1972 - 1974 ) and honorary senior researcher since 1975 [2] .
While working in the garden, his studies began to move from North America to tropical America; in 1944, he arranged an expedition to the Kayetur slope [2] .
Maguire continued to organize expeditions to South America , especially in the Amazon lowlands [2] . In 1954, Bassett discovered the mountain Cerro de la Neblin and gave it a name [3] . He was an organizer and a participant in three subsequent trips to the Cerro de la Neblin mountain; in 1965, Bassett was awarded the David Livingstone Centenary Medal [2] [3] .
Bassett Maguire was an inspirational teacher for a whole generation of nerds [2] . He made a significant contribution to botany, describing many plant species [4] .
Basset Maguire died in Manhattan from renal failure [3] on February 6, 1991 [2] at the age of 86 [2] [3] .
Scientific Activities
Basset Maguire specialized in fern and seed plants [1] .
Honors
The following plant species were named in his honor:
- Justicia maguirei Wassh. [five]
- Pseuderanthemum maguirei Leonard [6]
- Pterozonium maguirei Lellinger [7]
- Guatteria maguirei refr. [eight]
- Ilex maguirei Wurdack [9]
- Anthurium maguirei ADHawkes [10]
- Philodendron maguirei GSBunting [11]
- Bactris maguirei ( LHBailey ) Steyerm. [12]
- Pochota maguirei ( A.Robyns ) Steyerm. & WDStevens [13]
- Draba maguirei CLHitchc. [14]
- Brocchinia maguirei LBSm. [15]
- Cephalocereus maguirei Gilly [16]
- Swartzia maguirei RSCowan [17]
- Parinari maguirei Prance [18]
- Hypericum maguirei N.Robson [19]
- Ramatuela maguirei Exell & Stace [20]
- Trichipteris maguirei RMTryon [21]
- Cephalocarpus maguirei Gilly [22]
- Tetracera maguirei Aymard & BMBoom [23]
- Satyria maguirei Camp [24]
- Paepalanthus maguirei Moldenke [25]
- Phyllanthus maguirei Jabl. [26]
- Macrocarpaea maguirei Weaver & JRGrant [27]
- Nautilocalyx maguirei LESkog & Steyerm. [28]
- Paradrymonia maguirei Feuillet [29]
- Sacoglottis maguirei Cuatrec. [thirty]
- Persea maguirei LEKopp [31]
- Ternstroemia maguirei BMBoom [32]
- Phoradendron maguirei Rizzini [33]
- Vochysia maguirei Marc.-Berti [34]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 See the “Personal Page” link on the IPNI website on the “Systematic Wildlife Card”.
- 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Archives and Manuscript Collections: Bassett Maguire (Not (not available link) . The date of circulation is January 13, 2012. Archived July 12, 2010.
- 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 Obituaries: Bassett Maguire, 86, a Botanist And Expedition Leader, Is Dead
- ↑ See the link “List of taxa” on the IPNI website in the “Systematic Wildlife Card”.
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 64: 235 1990 (IK).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. x. No. 4, 55 1961 (IK).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17:14, f. 5. 1967 (IF).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. ix. No. 2, 328 1957 (IK).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. x. No. 4. 4 1961 (IK).
- ↑ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club lxxv. 633 1948 (IK).
- ↑ Acta Bot. Venez. 10 (1-4): 302 1975 (IK).
- ↑ Fieldiana, Bot. xxviii. No. 1, 80 1951 (IK).
- ↑ Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75 (1): 397. 1988 (IK).
- ↑ Univ. Wash Publ. Biol. xi. 70 1941 (IK).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. ix. 292 1957 (IK).
- ↑ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 76: 292. 1949 (GCI).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 115. 1953 (GCI).
- ↑ Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 9: 190. 1972 (IK).
- ↑ Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 16 (1): 52. 1987 (IK).
- ↑ Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Bot. 3: 41. 1963 (IK).
- ↑ Rhodora 74: 447. 1972 (IF).
- ↑ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club lxxvi. 292 1949 (IK).
- ↑ Brittonia 54 (4): 275 2002 publ. 2003 (IK).
- ↑ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 75: 652, fig. 23. 1948 (GCI).
- ↑ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club lxxv. 198 1948 (IK).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. xvii. No. 1, 105 1967 (IK).
- ↑ Harvard Pap. Bot. 8 (1): 95 2003.
- ↑ Novon 1 (4): 219. 1991 (IK).
- ↑ J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3 (1): 134 (-135; FIG. 1) 2009.
- ↑ Contr. US Natl. Herb. 35 (2): 163. 1961 (GCI).
- ↑ Mem. New York Bot. Gard. x. No. 5, 73 1964 (IK).
- ↑ Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76 (4): 973 1989 (IK).
- ↑ Arch. Jard Bot. Rio de Janeiro 24: 33 1980 (IK).
- ↑ Pittieria 9: 29 1981 (IK).
Literature
- The Bassett Maguire Festschrift: A Tribute to the Man and His Deeds ( Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden , volume 64); onder redactie van William R. Buck, Brian M. Boom & Richard A. Howard; The New York Botanical Garden Press ( 1990 ); ISBN 9780893273620 .
- The Botany of the Guayana Highland ; Bassett Maguire; The New York Botanical Garden Press ( 1999 ); ISBN 9780893272296 .