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William Gilson Farlow | |
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| Born | (1844-12-17)December 17, 1844 Boston Massachusetts, US |
| Died | June 3, 1919(1919-06-03) (aged 74) |
| Alma mater | Harvard |
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| Fields | Botany |
William Gilson Farlow (December 17, 1844 – June 3, 1919) was an Americanbotanist.
Farlow was born on December 17, 1844, inBoston, and educated atHarvard (A.B., 1866; M.D., 1870), where, after several years of European study, he became adjunctprofessor ofbotany in 1874 and professor ofcryptogamic botany in 1879.[1]
Farlow corresponded withCaroline Bingham andJacob Georg Agardh collaborating in the identification and classification of species of algae previously unknown to science.[2]
Farlow was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874.[3] In 1899, he was president of theAmerican Society of Naturalists; in 1904 president of theNational Academy of Sciences; in 1905president of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of theAmerican Philosophical Society; and in 1911 president of theBotanical Society of America.[4]
He received honorary degrees fromHarvard University, theUniversity of Glasgow (LL.D in 1901),[5] and theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.
He was known as the "father" ofcryptogamic botany in the United States.[6] Among his students was the phytologistWilliam Albert Setchell.[7]
Among his publications are:
WithCharles Lewis Anderson andDaniel Cady Eaton he issued theexsiccata seriesAlgae exsiccatae Americae Borealis (1877-1889).[8]
Between 1922 and 1946 theFarlow Herbarium distributed the exsiccataReliquiae Farlowianae. Cryptogams distributed by the Farlow Herbarium of Harvard University, the first part edited byRoland Thaxter (no. 1-600), followed up byDavid H. Linder (no. 601-1000).[9][10]
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