Herbert Spencer Jackson

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Herbert Spencer Jackson (born August 29, 1883 in Augusta , New York , † December 14, 1951 in Toronto ) was an American mycologist .

Jackson first completed a degree at Cornell University , which he graduated in 1905 with a Bachelor of Arts . He was then until 1908 a research fellow in mycology and a teacher in botany at Delaware College. He also worked at the Experiment Station in Delaware. In 1908/1909 he was an Austin teaching fellow in botany at Harvard . From 1909 to 1915 he taught as a professor of botany and phytopathology at the Oregon Agricultural College .

From 1915 onwards, Jackson was director of botany at the Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station for 13 years . There he also worked with the Bureau of Plant Industry on rust fungus research on grain. In 1929 he obtained the Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin . In the same year he became professor of mycology at the Botanical Institute of the University of Toronto , of which he was appointed director in 1941. Jackson dealt intensively with questions of the origin, development and classification of mushrooms and was one of the most respected specialists in rust and smut fungi ( Ustilaginomycotina ) even before his professorship in Toronto . He published 31 papers on these groups of fungi. In the vicinity of Toronto he found only a noticeable few rust fungus species, in whose phylogeny and relationships he was particularly interested. He set his research focus increasingly on the wart fungus relatives (Thelephoraceae), a until then hardly explored family of fungi. He and his students published about 16 papers on this.

Jackson played a key role in the expansion of the University of Toronto's mycological collection, which by the time of his death comprised around 94,000 specimens and included, among other things, an unusually complete collection of mushroom species from the Temagami Forest Reserve from northeastern Ontario .

His hobbies included stamp collecting, as well as irises ( Iris ), of which he nearly 500 varieties at the Toronto Botanical Garden amassed.

With his wife Edythe Doyle he had two children, a daughter and a son.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e D. L. Bailey: Herbert Spencer Jackson: 1883-1951 Science Vol. 115, No. 2995, May 23, 1952, p. 561. doi : 10.1126 / science.115.2995.561-a (online: [1 ] )
  2. ↑ Jackson, Herbert Spencer In: BM Greene (Ed.): Who's Who in Canada: Including the British Possessions in the Western Hemisphere: 1938-39. Boarding school Press, Toronto 1939. Retrieved from American Biographical Archive, p. 321.
  3. ↑ Jackson, Herbert Spencer (1883-1951). Global Plants, accessed July 16, 2014 .

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SURNAME Jackson, Herbert Spencer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Augusta , New York
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1951
Place of death Toronto