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Samuel J. Record
Samuel James Record (10 March 1881 – 3 February 1945) was an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of wood. Born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Record graduated from Wabash College in 1903 and received a Master of Forestry degree from Yale University in 1905. After working for the US Forest Service he joined the faculty of the Yale School of Forestry in 1910. In 1917 he became Professor of forest products, and in 1939 was made Dean (education), Dean of the school. In 1934, botanist Harold Norman Moldenke, Moldenke published ''Recordia'', a genus of flowering plants from Bolivia and Brazil, belonging to the family Verbenaceae and named in Samuel J. Record's honour. Also in the same year, Adolpho Ducke published ''Recordoxylon'', a genus of flowering plants from northern South America in the legume family, Fabaceae. Through field trips around the Americas (most notably Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and of course the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recordoxylon
''Recordoxylon'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Currently, there is no commercial usage for it, not as decoration nor for its nutritive properties. The genus name of ''Recordoxylon'' is in honour of Samuel J. Record (1881–1945), an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of trees and wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin th .... It was first described and published in Trop. Woods Vol.39 on page 16 in 1934. Its native range is northern South America and is found in northern Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana and Venezuela. Species References Cassieae Plants described in 1934 Flora of Guyana Flora of North Brazil Flora of Colombia Flora of French Guiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanists Active In Central America
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women. A *Erik Acharius *Julián Acuña Galé *Johann Friedrich Adam *Carl Adolph Agardh *Jacob Georg Agardh *Nikolaus Ager *William Aiton *Frédéric-Louis Allamand *Carlo Allioni *Prospero Alpini * Benjamin Alvord *Adeline Ames *Eliza Frances Andrews *Agnes Arber *Giovanni Arcangeli *David Ashton *William Guybon Atherstone *Anna Atkins * Daniel E. Atha *Armen Takhtajan B * Ernest Brown Babcock *Churchill Babington *Curt Backeberg *James Eustace Bagnall *Jacob Whitman Bailey *Liberty Hyde Bailey *Ibn al-Baitar *Giovanni Battista Balbis *John Hutton Balfour *Joseph Banks * César Barbosa * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
