Douglas Houghton Campbell

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Douglas (s) Houghton Campbell (born December 16, 1859 in Detroit , Michigan , † February 23, 1953 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American botanist at Stanford University . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Campb. ".

Campbell's father, James Valentine Campbell, was a judge at the Supreme Court of Michigan . Douglas Campbell studied at the University of Michigan , including with Volney Spalding , where he was particularly interested in the botanical work of Wilhelm Hofmeister . Campbell earned a master's degree in 1882 and then worked on the one hand as a lecturer at Detroit High School , on the other hand, he earned a Ph.D. (1986). With his savings he financed a two-year trip to Europe, where he was among other things an assistant to Eduard Strasburger in Bonn and Wilhelm Pfeffer in Tübingen.

After a first professorship in botany at Indiana University Bloomington (1888-1891) Campbell went to the newly founded Stanford University in Palo Alto , California , where he built up and headed the department of botany.

Douglas Campbell was considered an authority on the morphology and life cycle of ferns , deciduous mosses and liverworts , as well as the geographical distribution of plants. His book The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (1895), which he completed during a one-year study visit to the British Museum of Natural History , was considered a standard work for many years and saw two new editions (1905 and 1918). Numerous research trips, some of them lasting several years, took him to Hawaii , Jamaica , Europe, New Zealand and Australia , South Africa , East India, Japan , the West Indies and the Mediterranean . He found most of the samples in the Buitenzorg Botanical Garden ( Kebun Raya Bogor ).

Campbell argued that vascular plants arose on land - as descendants of a primitive moss , an extinct member of the Psilopsida class (a term that is now obsolete).

Campbell was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1888, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1898, and of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society since 1910 . In 1913 he was President of the Botanical Society of America . In 1916 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Douglas Houghton Campbell lived with the mathematician Robert Edgar Allardice (1862-1928) on the university campus in Palo Alto. Both were unmarried and childless.

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  1. ^ Campbell, Douglas Houghton (1859-1953) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed October 23, 2018
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Douglas Campbell. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences, accessed October 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ Douglass H. Campbell. In: search.amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Fellows Directoy. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 15, 2019 .
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SURNAME Campbell, Douglas Houghton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Douglas H .; Campbell, Douglas; Campbell, Douglass H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1953
Place of death Palo Alto , California