Oakes Ames (botanist)

Oakes Ames ( born September 26, 1874 in North Easton, Massachusetts, † April 28, 1950 in Ormond, Florida) was an American botanist. Ames was a specialist in orchids. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Ames ".

Life and work

Oakes Ames was the youngest son of Governor Oliver Ames and Anna C. Ames of North Easton, Massachusetts. He was the grandson of the same industrialist and politician Oakes Ames ( 1804-1873 ).

His father owned several greenhouses. At 15, the young Oakes Ames gained his first orchids. He studied at Harvard University, where he his AB in 1898 and 1899 the master 's degree was awarded. During his studies he learned Butler Ames of Lowell, with whom he was not related, and his sister Blanche Ames he married in 1900.

In 1900 he was hired as an instructor of Botany. From 1909 to 1922 he was director of the botanical garden, but practiced a variety of other offices. He was curator (1923-1927), "Supervisor" (1927-1937), Director (1937-1945) and Deputy Director (1945-1950) of the Botanic Museum of Harvard University; He was also Chairman of the Division of Biology (1926-1935) and Chairman of the Council of the Botanical Collections, Supervisor of the Biological Laboratory, the Atkins Garden in Cuba and the Arnold Arboretum ( 1927-1935 ). In his teaching career, he was Instructor in Botany (1900-1910), Associate Professor of Botany (1915-1926), Professor of Botany (1926-1932) and Arnold Professor of Botany ( 1932-1935 ). From 1935 to 1941 he was Research Professor of Botany. Ames established the Ames Botanical Laboratory, which was a world-renowned center for orchids and crop research.

Ames ' wife Blanche was taught by him in the orchidology and worked with him for a lifetime together. She made illustrations for Oakes Ames ' siebenbändigem work Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae of ( 1905-1922 published ).

Oakes Ames was also interested in the botany of crop plants.

Membership

Ames was a member of many scientific and botanical societies:

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Orchid Society
  • American Society of Naturalists
  • International Association of Botanistes
  • Biological Society of Washington
  • Boston Society of Natural History
  • Botanical Society of America
  • Canal Zone Orchid Society
  • Linnean Society of London
  • National Institute of Social Science
  • New England Botanical Club
  • New York Academy of Science
  • Orchid Circle of Ceylon
  • Sigma Xi
  • Torrey Botanical Club
  • Washington Academy of Science

Honors

The Herbarium of Harvard University, the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, bears his name. The plant genus of the family of Hu Amesiodendron Soapberry ( Sapindaceae ) has been named after him.

Works

  • Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae, issuing from the Ames Botanical Laboratory, North Easton, Massachusetts. fasc. 1-7. Boston 1905 - 1922 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.15433
  • Notes on Philippine orchids with descriptions of new species. Manila 1909 - 1920 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.15399
  • Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Cosmos Press, Cambridge 1914 - 1933 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.13657
  • With Donovan Stewart Correll: Orchids of Guatemala. Chicago Natural History Museum 1952 - 1953 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.2380
  • With Donovan Stewart Correll: Supplement to Orchids of Guatemala, and British Honduras. Chicago Natural History Museum 1965 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.4816
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