Albert Kellogg

Albert Kellogg (December 6, 1813 in New Hartford, Connecticut, † March 31, 1887 in Alameda, California ) was an American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kellogg ".

Life

Albert Kellogg attended school in Wilbraham (Massachusetts), but then moved to and attended Transylvania University in Lexington (Kentucky), where he graduated in 1834 with a Master degree. After graduating, he toured the western United States and described the trees in California. His report appeared in 1845 in John Charles Frémont, " Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. " In 1845, he traveled with John James Audubon Texas La Forest at the very time the annexation by the United States. Then he started botanical expeditions along the entire West Coast of the Tierra del Fuego ( Land of Fire ) to Alaska. Alaska itself he visited in 1867 with George Davidson, and put on a large collection of plants, which are still preserved in the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and the California Academy of Sciences in part. He was in 1853 one of the seven founders of the California Academy of Sciences.

Work

Albert Kellogg's work consists of a variety of scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. His most famous work is the book Forest Trees of California, where many famous drawings of Californian oak species. Towards the end of his life, he planned a similar work on conifers, which remained unfinished, however.

His progressive ideas also included the promotion of women in science. Alice Eastwood and Mary Katharine Brandegee worked as a curator at him.

Effect

Kellogg has first described a variety of plant species in America. In his honor, the genus Kelloggia from the plant family Rubiaceae ( Rubiaceae ) was named, along with several individual species:

  • The California Black Oak ( Quercus kelloggii )
  • Kelloggs lily ( Lilium kelloggii )
  • Antirrhinum kelloggii
  • Hemizonia kelloggii
  • Poa kelloggii
  • Polygonum kelloggii
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