John Merle Coulter

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John Merle Coulter
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John Merle Coulter (born November 20, 1851 in Ningbo , † December 23, 1928 in Yonkers , New York ) was an American botanist and founding editor of the Botanical Gazette . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ JMCoult. "

Life

John Merle Coulter, like his brother Stanley Coulter, was born to missionaries in China, but received his education at Hover College in Indiana , where his widowed mother had returned in 1853. From 1872 to 1873 he worked as a botanist for the United States Geological Survey in the Rocky Mountains and then taught science at his old college before he became a professor of biology at Wabash College in Crawfordsville in 1879 . In 1882 he received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. (Doctor of Philosophy) PhD. From 1891 to 1893 he served as president of Indiana University, and from 1893 to 1896 he was president of Lake Forest College, Illinois . In 1896 he took over the management of the botanical department at the University of Chicago . In 1909 he survived along with his wife Georgia and the children Grace and Merle the sinking of the White Star -Schiffes RMS Republic before Nantucket , in which six people were killed. In 1925 he moved to Yonkers in New York, from where he was involved in setting up the Boyce Thompson Institute of Botany in Ithaca , of which he was director of the institute.

Honors

In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1909 to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1915 to the American Philosophical Society . In 1920 the University of Indiana awarded him an honorary degree from the law school. Vasey and Rose described the genus Coulterella from the Asteraceae family , BL Robinson the genus Coulterophytum from the umbelliferous family in his honor.

Fonts (selection)

In 1875, Coulter founded the scientific journal Botanical Gazette . He also wrote the following books:

  • Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado . Washington 1874, (online) . - with Thomas Conrad Porter (1822–1901)
  • Manual of the botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky mountain region, from New Mexico to the British boundary . New York / Chicago 1885, (online) .
  • Botany of western Texas: A manual of the phanerograms and pteridophytes of western Texas . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 2, 1892–1893, (online)
  • Preliminary Revision of the North American species of Cactus, Anhalonium and Lophophora . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 3, Number 2, June 1894, pp. 91-132, (online) .
  • Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Echinocactus, Cereus, and Opuntia . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 3, Number 7, April 1896. pp. 355-462, (online) .
  • Plant relations. A first book of botany . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1900, (on-line) .
  • Plant structures. A second book of botany . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1900, (on-line) .
  • Morphology of Spermatophytes . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1901, (on-line) . - with Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1863–1943)
  • Morphology of Angiosperms (Morphology of spermatophytes. Part II) . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1903, (on-line) . - with Charles Joseph Chamberlain
  • Plant studies. An elementary botany . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1905, (2nd edition, 1911) .
  • Plants. A Text-Book of Botany . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1907, (on-line) .
  • Morphology of Gymnosperms . Chicago 1910, (online) . - with Charles Joseph Chamberlain
  • Elementary Studies in Botany . D. Appleton & Co., New York / Chicago 1913, (online) .
  • Fundamentals of Plant Breeding . D. Appleton & Co., New York / Chicago 1914.
  • Plant Genetics . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1918, (online) . - with Merle Crowe Coulter (1894–1958)
With Joseph Nelson Rose
  • Synopsis of North American pines, based upon leaf anatomy. I. In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 11, 1886, pp. 256-262, (online) .
  • Synopsis of North American pines, based upon leaf anatomy. II. In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 11, 1886, pp. 302-309, (online) .
  • Notes on Umbelliferae of E. United States . In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 12, 1887, pp. 12-16 , 60-63 , 73-76 , 102-104 , 134-138 , 157-160 , 261-264 , 291-295 .
  • Notes on Western Umbelliferae . In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 13, 1888, pp. 77-81 , 141-146 , 208-211 .
  • Revision of North American Umbelliferae . Herbarium Wabash College, Crawfordsville 1888, (online) .
  • Notes on North American Umbelliferae I. In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 14, 1889, 274-284.
  • A new genus of Umbelliferae . In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 15, 1890, pp. 15-16, (online) .
  • Notes on North American Umbelliferae II. In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 15, 1890, pp. 259-261, (online) .
  • Actinella (Hymenoxis) Texana, n. Sp. In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 16, 1891, pp. 27-28, (online) .
  • New Genus of Umbelliferae . In: Botanical Gazette . Volume 19, 1894, p. 466, (online) .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b William Trelease : Biographical Memoir of John Merle Coulter . In: Biographical Memoirs . Volume 14, National Academy of Sciences, 1929, pp. 97-123, PDF
  2. ^ Member History: John M. Coulter. American Philosophical Society, accessed June 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Coulter, John Merle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Ningbo
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1928
Place of death Yonkers , New York