Edgar William Olive

Edgar William Olive also in the spelling variants Edgar W. Olive , EW Olive (born April 1, 1870 in Lebanon , Boone County , Indiana , † January 3, 1971 in Madison , Jefferson County , Indiana) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Olive ".

Life

Family and education

Edgar William Olive, second oldest of six sons of the teacher David Henry Olive and its Spouse Caroline Elizabeth born Lawrence, took after attending the public schools in his hometown of Lebanon the study of natural sciences at Wabash College in Crawfordsville in the state of Indiana in 1893 he acquired the Bachelor of Science , Master of Arts in 1895 . The specialist in the field of botany then moved to Harvard University , where he received a Master of Science degree in 1897 and a doctorate ( Ph. D. ) in botany in 1902 . In 1903 a Carnegie Institution Fellowship took him to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he remained until the following year.

Edgar William Olive married Elizabeth Williams Ristine, a native of Crawfordsville, on September 6, 1898 in Montgomery, Indiana. From this connection came the children Theodore Ristine and Marian Lawrence. He died in January 1971 at the age of 100 in Madison.

Professional background

Edgar William Olive received a position as Instructor of Botany at Wabash College in 1893 , which he held until 1895. After teaching positions at high schools in Indiana, he was employed as an assistant in Botany from 1897 , and from 1898 as an instructor of Botany at Harvard University. He also worked in the same capacity at Radcliffe College . After his return from Bonn he filled the position of a lecturer in Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1904 to 1906 . At the same time, he held the professorship for botany at the South Dakota State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts in Brookings from 1905 to 1907 . Subsequently, he was transferred to the position of State Botanist of South Dakota .

In 1912 Edgar William Olive accepted a call to New York City as curator of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, in 1920 he resigned from this position. In the immediate consequence he clipped to Indianapolis , where he was in the company of his younger brother George Scott, George S. Olive and Co. , hired. The person responsible there for the areas of public accounting and income tax was retired in 1946.

Edgar William Olive, member of the Sigma Xi , the Phi Beta Kappa , the Phi Delta Theta and the American Phytopathological Society, came out in particular with research results on fungi and fungal diseases of plants.

Fonts

• A list of the Mycetozoa collected near Crawfordsville, Indiana, Indiana Academy of Science, Indianapolis, 1898
• A Preliminary Enumeration of the Sorophoreae, in: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXXVII, No. 12, Metcalf and Co., Boston, pp. 451-513.
• Monograph of the Acrasieae, Printed for the Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, 1902
• Mitotic division of the nuclei of the Cyanophyceae, G. Thieme, Leipzig, 1904
• The Morphology of Monascus Purpureus, in: Botanical Gazette, Vol. XXXVIIII., University of Chicago Press., Chicago, 1905, pp. 56-60.
• Rusts of cereals and other plants, in: Bulletin (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station), no.109, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Brookings, SD, 1908
• Sexual Cell Fusions and Vegetative Nuclear Divisions in the Rusts, in: Annals of Botany, Vol. XXII, Academic Press, London, New York, 1908, pp. 331-360.
• Endophyllum-like Rusts of Porto Rico, in: American Journal of Botany, Vol. IV, Published in cooperation with the Botanical Society of America by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Lancaster, Pa., 1917, pp. 44-52.
• Key to some of the principal families of flowering plants, in: Leaflets (Brooklyn Botanic Garden), ser. 7, no.5, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, 1919
• The Killing of Mustard and Other Noxious Weeds in Grain Fields by the Use of Iron Sulphate, new edition, Nabu Press, United States, 2012, ISBN 1-279-75819-8

literature

• Head for Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, in: The New York Times, September 13, 1912, accessed July 4, 2013
• Who was who in America. : volume 5, 1969–1973 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, pp. 544, 545.
• Charles C Carpenter: Early Oklahoma naturalists and collectors , in: Occasional papers (Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History), no.6, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, Okla., 2000

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Edgar William Olive at the IPNI
• Edgar William Olive in the Index of Botanists at Harvard University Herbaria