John Merle Coulter

John Merle Coulter ( born November 20, 1851 in Ningbo, † December 23, 1928 in Yonkers, New York) was an American botanist and founding editor of the Botanical Gazette. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " JMCoult. ".

Life

John Merle Coulter was his brother Stanley Coulter born as a child of missionaries in China, received his school education but at Hover College in Indiana, where his widowed mother in 1853 was returned. From 1872 to 1873 he worked as a botanist for the United States Geological Survey in the Rocky Mountains and then taught science at his old college, before he took over in 1879 a professor of biology at Wabash College in Crawfordsville. In 1882 he was at the University of Indiana to the Ph.D. ( Doctor of Philosophy ) PhD. From 1891 to 1893 he served as president of Indiana University and from 1893 to 1896 he was the Lake Forest College in Illinois before. In 1896 he became head the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago. In 1909 he survived along with his wife Grace and their children Grace and Merle the sinking of the White Star ship RMS Republic in front of Nantucket, in which six people were killed. In 1925 he moved to Yonkers in New York, where the structure of the Boyce Thompson Institute of Botany in Ithaca was involved, the director of the institute he was he.

Honors

In 1909 he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. 1920 awarded him an honorary doctorate from Indiana University Law School. Vasey and Rose described the genus Coulterella from the Asteraceae family, the genus Robinson Coulterophytum from the Umbelliferae family in his honor.

Writings (selection )

1875 Coulter founded the scientific journal Botanical Gazette. He has also written the following books:

  • Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado. Washington 1874 (online). - Thomas Conrad Porter (1822-1901)
  • Manual of the botany ( Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta ) of the Rocky mountain region, from New Mexico to the British boundary. New York / Chicago 1885 (online).
  • Botany of western Texas: A manual of the phanerograms and pteridophytes of western Texas. In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Volume 2, 1892-1893 (online)
  • Preliminary revision of the North American species of Cactus, Anhalonium and Lophophora. In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Volume 3, Number 2, June 1894, pp. 91-132, (online).
  • Preliminary revision of the North American species of Echinocactus, Cereus, and Opuntia. In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Volume 3, Number 7, May 1896. Pp. 355-462, (online).
  • Plant relations. A first book of botany. D. Appleton & Co., New York 1900, (online).
  • Plant structures. A second book of botany. D. Appleton & Co., New York 1900, (online).
  • Morphology of spermatophytes. D. Appleton & Co., New York 1901, (online). - By Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1863-1943)
  • Morphology of Angiosperms ( Morphology of spermatophytes. Part II). D. Appleton & Co., New York 1903, (online). - By Charles Joseph Chamberlain
  • Plant studies. An elementary botany. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1905 (2nd edition, 1911).
  • Plants. A Text -Book of Botany. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1907, (online).
  • Morphology of Gymnosperms. Chicago 1910 (online). - By Charles Joseph Chamberlain
  • Elementary Studies in Botany. D. Appleton & Co., New York / Chicago 1913 (online).
  • Fundamentals of Plant Breeding. D. Appleton & Co., New York / Chicago 1914.
  • Plant Genetics. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1918 (online). - With Merle Crowe Coulter (1894-1958)
  • Synopsis of North American pines, based upon leaf anatomy. I. In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 11, 1886, pp. 256-262, (online).
  • Synopsis of North American pines, based upon leaf anatomy. II In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 11, 1886, pp. 302-309, (online).
  • Notes on the Umbelliferae of E. United States. In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 12, 1887, pp. 12-16, 60-63, 73-76, 102-104, 134-138, 157-160, 261-264, 291-295.
  • Notes on Western Umbelliferae '. In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 13, 1888, pp. 77-81, 141-146, 208-211.
  • Revision of North American Umbelliferae. Herbarium Wabash College, Crawfordsville 1888 (online).
  • Notes on North American Umbelliferae I. In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 14, 1889, 274-284.
  • A new genus of Umbelliferae. In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 15, 1890, pp. 15-16, (online).
  • Notes on North American Umbelliferae II In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 15, 1890, pp. 259-261, (online).
  • Actinella ( Hymenoxis ) Texana, n sp. In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 16, 1891, pp. 27-28, (online).
  • New genus of Umbelliferae. In: Botanical Gazette. Volume 19, 1894, p 466, (online).
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