Albert Kellogg
Albert Kellogg (born December 6, 1813 in New Hartford , Connecticut , † March 31, 1887 in Alameda , California ) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Kellogg ".
Life
Albert Kellogg went to school in Wilbraham ( Massachusetts ), but then moved to and attended Transylvania University in Lexington ( Kentucky ), which he in 1834 with the Master degree completed. After graduating, he toured the western United States and described the trees in California. His report was published in 1845 in John Charles Frémont's " Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. “In 1845 he and John James La Forest toured Audubon Texas just at the time of the annexation by the United States. Then he started botanical expeditions along the entire American west coast from the Tierra del Fuego ( Tierra del Fuego ) to Alaska . He visited Alaska himself in 1867 with George Davidson and put on a large collection of plants, some of which are still preserved today in the Smithsonian Institution , the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and the California Academy of Sciences . He himself was one of the seven founders of the California Academy of Sciences in 1853.
plant
Albert Kellogg's work consists of a large number of different scientific publications in specialist journals. His best known work is the book Forest Trees of California , which contains many famous drawings of California oak species. Towards the end of his life he planned a similar work on conifers, but it remained unfinished.
- Forest trees of California . Publisher: JD Young Sacramento, 1882
- Descriptions of new plants, Volume 2, Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences. Publisher: Towne & Bacon, San Francisco 1863
- Illustrations of West American oaks: from drawings by the late Albert Kellogg , text by Edward L. Greene, Parts 1-2
His progressive ideas also included the advancement of women in science. Alice Eastwood and Mary Katharine Brandegee worked as curators for him.
effect
Kellogg first described a variety of plant species in America . In his honor, which was kind Kelloggia from the plant family of the redness plants named (Rubiaceae), along with several individual species:
- the California black oak ( Quercus kelloggii )
- Kellogg's Lily ( Lilium kelloggii )
- Antirrhinum kelloggii
- Hemizonia kelloggii
- Poa kelloggii
- Polygonum kelloggii
Web links
- Biography on history.rootsweb.com (English)
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Albert Kellogg at the IPNI
- Death of Dr. Albert Kellogg by REJS Death of Dr. Albert Kellogg is an article from Science, Volume 9, 1887, pages 391-92
swell
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ John Charles Frémont, John Torrey, James Hal: Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. Gales and Seaton, 1845 online
- ^ A. Kellogg: Forest Trees of California. Second Report of the State Mineralogist of California , 1882, App. 1, pp. 1-148.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kellogg, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Hartford , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1887 |
| Place of death | Alameda (California) |