Thomas Huston Macbride (July 31, 1848 – March 27, 1934) was the tenth president of theUniversity of Iowa, serving from 1914 to 1916. Macbride was a naturalist and botanist, Macbride Hall at the University of Iowa is named for him. He often collaborated withSamuel Calvin. He was the 75th member of theAcacia chapter at the University of Iowa.
In 1909, botanistFred Jay Seaver publishedMacbridella a genus of (infungi family ofMelanommataceae), and named in his honour.[1]
Then in 1934, botanistHenry Clark Gilbert in the journal of Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist.circumscribed thegenus ofAmoebozoa (from the familyStemonitidaceae),Macbrideola. He noted 'This new genus is named in honor of Dr. Thomas H. Macbride, late President Emeritus of the University of Iowa. For more than forty years Dr. Macbride collected and studied the Myxomycetes. His contributions to our knowledge of the North American forms of this group are the greatest ever made by any one person. This new genus is particularly appropriate to commemorate Dr. Macbride's work because the type species, M. scintillans, finds its ideal habitat in the beautiful woodlands of the Iowa country in which Dr. Macbride labored. It is hoped that this beautiful though minute Myxomycete may bear this name and ever remind us of the work of a great and good scholar.'[2]
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