Arthur Johnson Eames (October 10, 1881 – February 12, 1969) was an American botanist who spent over 50 years as faculty member and emeritus professor of botany at

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, known for his work on flower anatomy and

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. He served as president of the

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in 1938, was a member of the

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, and received an honorary

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from the

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in 1950.

Life

Eames was born in

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and attended

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, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1908, a master's degree in 1910, and a PhD in 1912. He joined the faculty of Cornell that year. In the 1920s he was the botanist sent to

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with William C. McKern and

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who were from the

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. These three made up one of the four teams of the Bayard Dominick Expedition.An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
Te Rangi Hiroa, The Bayard Dominick Expeditions, p45-, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1945, Honolulu Eames retired in 1949. His works include the textbooks ''Plant Anatomy'' (1925); ''Morphology of Vascular Plants: The Lower Groups'' (1936); and ''The Morphology of Angiosperms'' (1961).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eames, Arthur Johnson 1881 births 1969 deaths People from Framingham, Massachusetts Harvard University alumni Cornell University faculty 20th-century American botanists