tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7289728.post-1094058165189551362004-09-01T13:02:00.000-04:002004-09-11T17:24:54.020-04:00<div align="center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/who.1.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/who.1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><strong>WHO IS THIS BOTANIST?</strong> <br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><p><span style="color:red;"></span></p><p><span style="color:red;">Click <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/Dudley.jpg">HERE</a> for the ID on the verso of this <a href="http://dlib.nyu.edu:8083/nyhsead/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=/pach.xml&style=/saxon01n2002.xsl&amp;part=body">Gustavus W. Pach</a> photograph.</span> <br /></span> <br /> <br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Our next American botanist (1849-1911) continues the series of Cornellians which is especially apropos in light of the upcoming (September 9-11)<a href="http://ahssym.mannlib.cornell.edu/"> <span style="color:#cc6600;">Agricultural History Society Symposium</span></a> celebrating <a href="http://www.cals.cornell.edu/centennial.cfm"><span style="color:#cc6600;">"A Century of Scientific Outreach"</span></a> at Cornell University. Our subject sat for this portrait on the occasion of his 1874 graduation from Cornell University. He studied with Louis Agassiz on Penikese Island in 1875, and received his M.S. in 1876. He was the first cryptogamic botanist at Cornell, serving on the faculty from 1876-1892. </span></p><p><span style="color:#3333ff;">Upon entering Cornell as a freshman in 1870 he had become acquainted with fellow student (Cornell Class of 1872), future Penikese alumnus, ichthyologist, and President of both Indiana and Stanford Universities (first President of Stanford), <a href="http://www.davidstarrjordan.org/bio.html"><span style="color:#cc6600;">David Starr Jordan</span></a>, who was then an instructor in botany under <a href="http://www.bpp.msu.edu/history/html/prentiss.html"><span style="color:#cc6600;">Professor Albert N. Prentiss</span></a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;color:#000099;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/prentiss.jpg"><span style="color:#cc6600;">Prentiss</span></a> was a graduate of the first (1861) class of the Michigan Agricultural College, and was chosen as Professor of Botany, Horticulture and Arboriculture on the first (1868) faculty at Cornell.</span> <span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#3333ff;">They became close friends and roommates, and our subject eventually succeeded Jordan as Prentiss' assistant. In 1880 he took a year's leave from Cornell to substitute for Jordan as acting professor of biology at Indiana University. Their common background was no doubt a factor in our man's 1892 appointment as Professor of Systematic Botany at Stanford, where he remained until his 1911 retirement. Jordan wrote his memoriam in <em>Science</em> [August 4, 1911, (N.S. Vol. XXXIV; No. 866) p. 143-145]. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#3333ff;">The title page of his first publication, <u><strong><span style="color:#333333;">The Cayuga Flora</span></strong></u>, is shown <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/cayuga.jpg"><span style="color:#cc6600;">here</span></a>. <span style="font-size:85%;color:#000066;">(His name appears as the author- don't click unless you want to reveal his ID.)</span></span> <br /></p>Dannoreply@blogger.com