Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 191128 April 1998) was an American botanist, professor at
Harvard University
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and one of the founders of both the
International Association for Plant Taxonomy[Cowan, R. S. and Stafleu, F. A. (1982) "The origin and early history of IAPT" ''Taxon'' 31(3): pp. 415–420] and the
Organization for Tropical Studies. He was also the second president of each of them.
"Organization for Tropical Studies - The Rogues Gallery of Presidents"
accessed 6 April 2009
Sources
* Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. "Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 1911 – 28 April 1998)" ''Taxon'' 48(2): pp. 225–56
* Campbell, Christopher S. and Greene, Craig W. (1988) "A Tribute to Reed Clark Rollins, Recipient of the 1987 Asa Gray Award" ''Systematic Botany'' 13(1): pp. 170–171
References
;Botanist designation
External links
Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. (1999) "Reed Clark Rollins"
Biographical Memoir at National Academy Press
American taxonomists
1911 births
1998 deaths
Harvard University faculty
People from Wyoming
American founders
20th-century American botanists
University of Wyoming alumni
Harvard University alumni
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