Harlan P. Banks
Harlan Parker Banks (born September 1, 1913 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , † September 22, 1998 in New Hampshire ) was an American botanist and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " HPBanks ".
Banks graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in 1934 and was then an instructor in botany. He received his doctorate from Cornell University in paleobotany under Loren C. Petry , was an associate professor at Acadia University in Newfoundland and at the University of Minnesota and from 1949 at Cornell University. He was initially an associate professor and, from 1950 until his retirement in 1978, professor of botany. 1950 to 1961 he headed the Faculty of Botany.
His work focused on plant fossils from the Devonian in New York, which are among the earliest land plants.
He lectured on paleobotany at the centenary of the Peabody Museum in Yale. In 1984 he received an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth. In 1987 he became an external member of the Linnean Society of London and received the gold medal of the Paleontological Society . In 1957/58 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Liège and in 1963/64 as a Guggenheim Fellow in Liège and Cambridge. In 1968 he was a Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences (1980) and President of the International Organization of Paleobotany (1969 to 1975) and President of the Botanical Society of America in 1969.
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- Evolution and Plants of the Past, Macmillan 1970
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| SURNAME | Banks, Harlan P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Banks, Harlan Parker (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleobotanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1998 |
| Place of death | New Hampshire |