Joseph Charles Arthur

Joseph Charles Arthur ( born January 11, 1850 in Lowville, New York, † April 30, 1942 in Brook, Indiana) was an American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Arthur ".

Life

Arthur was born on 11 January 1850 in Lowville in the U.S. state of New York. When he was a small child, his family moved to Charles City, Iowa. In 1869 he began studying at the Iowa Agricultural College, now Iowa State University in Ames. In 1872, he graduated with a Bachelor of Sciences ( BS). In 1877 he received the Master of Science ( M.Sc.) in Botany.

He studied at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1879 to 1881 he was assistant ( " instructor" ) at the University of Wisconsin, 1882, he was " instructor" at the University of Minnesota. From 1884 to 1886 he was a botanist at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York.

In 1886 he received his doctorate ( Sc.D. ) in plant pathology and mycology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Shortly thereafter, he went to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he was to establish the Department of Botany ( " Department of Botany " ) and forward from 1887 to 1915 also.

Arthur specializing in real rust fungi ( Uredinales ), an order of plant parasitic fungi. During his working life at Purdue University, he founded the herbarium ( named after him as " Arthur Herbarium "), which continues to be a leading research facility for rust fungi.

Arthur was a member of the Indiana Academy of Science and in 1893 their president. As a member of the Botanical Society of America in 1902 and again in 1910 he was president. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. At the International Botanical Congress, he was also active.

In 1901 he married a native of Lafayette in Indiana Emily Stiles Potter. On April 30, 1942, he died in Brook, Indiana.

Works

Arthur was the co - author and editor of the work The Plant Rusts ( 1929). To Flora of North America by the U.S. botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton he contributed to Volume 7 in the sections on " Uredinales " ( numbers 2 to 12, 1907-1927 ). Arthur has published many other scientific contributions to the rust fungi.

  • Contributions to the flora of Iowa. A catalog of the plants phaenogamous. 1876 ​​doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.55509 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.62417
  • Contributions to the flora of Iowa. II -VI. 1877 - 1883 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.7618
  • History and biology of pear blight. 1886 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.41039
  • Handbook of plant dissection. 1886 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.23907
  • Living plants and Their properties. 1898 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.13222 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.26250
  • Cultures of Uredineae 1899-1921. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.23493
  • Handbook of plant morphology; being the Handbook of plant dissection. 1904 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.26209
  • An annotated translation of the part of Schweinitz 's two papers giving the rusts of North America. 1918? doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.3902
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