A. S. Hitchcock

Albert Spear Hitchcock (* 1865 in Owasso, Michigan, † 1935 Atlantic Ocean) was an American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Hitchc. ".

Life

Albert Spear Hitchcock studied at Iowa State College, where he obtained three degrees. He then worked for ten years as a professor of botany at Kansas State College. From 1901 to 1935 he was then Agrostologe ( grasses watchers ) of the United States National Herbarium. On the way back from a research trip to various European herbaria he died in 1935 on the Atlantic Ocean aboard the The City of Norfolk.

Swell

  • Robert H. Mohlenbrock: Illinois Solanaceae in the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium and Biographical Sketches of Some Collector. In: . Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Volume 69, 1982 pp. 382-392.
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