Townshend Stith Brandegee | |
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| Born | February 16, 1843 |
| Died | April 7, 1925(1925-04-07) (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | Sheffield Scientific School |
| Spouse(s) | Katharine Layne Curran (born Mary Katharine Layne; m. 1889-1920, her death) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | Botanical Society of America California Academy of Sciences National Geographical Society Sigma Xi |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Brandegee |
Townshend Stith Brandegee (February 16, 1843 – April 7, 1925) was an American botanist. He was an authority on the flora of Baja California and theChannel Islands of California.[1]
Brandegee was born on February 16, 1843, inBerlin, Connecticut. From 1862 to 1864 he served in the Connecticut Artillery and later decided to become an engineer. He got his degree in engineering fromSheffield Scientific School but then pursued botany after he participated at some classes withDaniel Cady Eaton inYale University.
When he graduated from there, he became acounty surveyor and city engineer atCanon City, Colorado where in free time he also collected certain species of plants. He was accustomed withJohn H. Redfield andAsa Gray the later of which suggested him to joinFerdinand V. Hayden's expedition to southwestColorado andUtah where he will use his surveyor skills as well as botanical. He was hired as a railroad surveyor in bothArkansas andNew Mexico and continued with plant collecting. Later on, he was hired at theNorthern Transcontinental Survey and created a map ofAdirondack region. On his journey he visitedSanta Cruz andSanta Rosa Islands on one of which he collected wood forCharles Sprague Sargent.[2]
Soon after it, he moved toSan Francisco where he became a memberCalifornia Academy of Sciences and continued studying plants there and in Baja California, Mexico.[3] Besides being a member of the CAS he was also a member ofBotanical Society of America,National Geographical Society,Sigma Xi and a fellow at theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1889 to 1906 he wrote a 12-volume work calledPlantae Mexicanae Purpusianae which was published in collaboration withCarl A. Purpus. He married a fellow botanist,Katharine Layne Curran inSan Diego in 1889. In 1906, he moved toBerkeley, California where he died on April 7, 1925.[2]
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