Samuel James Record (10 March 1881 – 3 February 1945) was an American
botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
who played a prominent role in the study of
wood.
Born at
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 of the school.
In 1934, botanist
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
Adolpho Ducke (October 19, 1876 – January 5, 1959), (also referred to as Adolfo Ducke and occasionally misspelled "Duque"), was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer specializing in Amazonia. According to family records, he was an et ...
published ''
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 ' ...
'', a genus of
flowering plants from northern South America in the
legume
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family,
.
Through field trips around the
Americas
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Along with th ...
(most notably
Belize,
Guatemala
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,
Honduras
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,
Colombia
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and of course the
US) and help from correspondents all over the world, Samuel Record amassed a collection of some 41 000 identified wood specimens. Originally housed at Yale, the SJRw collection was moved in 1969 to the US Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory. He was a founder of the International Society of Wood Anatomists
and started publishing the journal ''Tropical Woods'' in 1925.
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1881 births
1945 deaths
American botanists
Botanists active in North America
Botanists active in Central America
Botanists active in South America
Botanists with author abbreviations
Wabash College alumni
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies alumni
People from Crawfordsville, Indiana
Yale University faculty