Townshend Stith Brandegee

Townshend Stith Brandegee (born February 16, 1843 in Berlin, Connecticut , † April 7, 1925 in Berkeley , California ) was an American botanist and plant collector. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Brandegee "; the abbreviation “ TSBrandeg. " in use.

Live and act

Townshend Stith Brandegee was born in 1843 as the son of a country doctor in Berlin, Connecticut. He studied engineering at Yale. He was interested in botany since his youth. In the 1870s he worked as a civil engineering engineer in the context of developing the country for railroad construction. He worked in Colorado and other western states. In addition to his engineering work, he was a botanical collector. From 1888 he devoted himself almost exclusively to researching the vegetation of California and Mexico. He gave up engineering and worked as an honorary curator for the University of Berkeley. Townshend Stith Brandegee was the editor of Zoe magazine from 1890 to 1894 . He had been married to the botanist and plant collector Mary Katharine Brandegee since 1889 . Mary Katharine Brandegee was in charge of the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco until the couple moved to San Diego in 1894.

Since 1898 the couple worked closely with Carl Albert Purpus , from which an intensive community of collectors developed. From 1906 until his death he lived in Berkeley. The couple volunteered for the university herbarium. Their extensive collections were bequeathed to the university in a will.

Honors

In honor of Townshend Stith Brandegee, the genus Brandegea Cogn. named from the plant family of the cucurbitaceae .

Fonts (selection)

The plants indigenous in Southern Colorado . In: The American Naturalist . Volume 10, Number 4, 1876, p. 230 (JSTOR) .
The flora of Southwestern Colorado In: Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior . Volume 2, Number 3, 1876, pp. 227-248 (online) .
Flora of the Santa Barbara Islands . In: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences . 2nd episode, volume 1, number 2, 1888, pp. 201-206 (online) .
A Collection of Plants from Baja California, 1889 . In: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences . 2nd Series, Volume 2, 1889, pp. 117-216, (online) .
The Teton and Yellowstone park (southern part) forest reserves . In: 19th annual report of the US Geological survey, 1897-98 . Part V: Forest Reserves, Washington 1899, pp. 191-216 (online) .
Flora of the Cape Region of Baja California . In: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences . 2nd Series, Volume 3, 1891, pp. 108-182 (online) .
Additions to the Flora of the Cape Region of Baja California . In: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences . Second Series, Volume 3, 1892, pp. 218-227 (online) .
Southern extension of California flora . In: Zoe . Volume 4, Number 3, 1893, pp. 199-210 (online) .
New species of plants from Mexico . In: Erythea . Volume 7, 1899, pp. 1-9 (online) .
New species of mexican plants collected by Dr. CA Purpus . In: Zoe . Volume 5, Number 11, 1906, pp. 231-241 (online) .
- = Plantae novae Mexicanae a CA Purpus collectae . In: Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis . Volume 3, Number 46/47, pp. 373-380 (online) .
Plantae mexicanae purpusianae .
- I . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 3, Number 8, 1909, pp. 377-396.
- II . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 4, Number 3, 1910, pp. 85-95.
- III . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 4, Number 11, 1911, pp. 177-194.
- IV . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 4, Number 15, 1912, pp. 269-281.
- V . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 4, Number 19, 1913, pp. 375-388.
- VI . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 6, Number 4, 1914, pp. 51-77 (online) .
- VII . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 6, Number 8, 1915, pp. 177-197 (online) .
- VIII . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 6, Number 13, 1917, pp. 363-375 (online) .
- IX . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 6, Number 19, 1919, pp. 497-504 (online) .
- X . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 7, Number 10, 1920, pp. 325-331 (online) .
- XI . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 10, Number 2, 1922, pp. 181-188 (online) .
- XII . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 10, Number 8, 1924, pp. 403-421 (online) .
Species novae vel minus cognitae . In: University of California Publications in Botany . Volume 6, Number 12, 1916, pp. 357-361 (online) .

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Brandegee, Townshend Stith . In: Frans A. Stafleu, Erik A. Mennega: Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types . Supplement III: Br-Ca, Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein 1995, ISBN 3-87429-376-9 , pp. 10-12 (online) .
Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Townshend Stith Brandegee at the IPNI
Brandegee, Townshend Stith (1843–1925) at the University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley (short biography)

personal data
SURNAME	Brandegee, Townshend Stith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1925
Place of death	Berkeley , California

[Burkhardt2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]