William Franklin Wight

William Franklin Wight (born June 8, 1874 in Allegan , Michigan , † February 2, 1954 in Southern California) was an American botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " W.Wight "; earlier the abbreviation “ WFWight ” was also in use.

Wight studied at Michigan State College and received his masters from Stanford University, California in 1900. He then worked for a few years for the United States Department of Agriculture , from which he received his doctorate in 1928. He was a lecturer at Stanford from 1926 to 1941 . Wight carried out a series of botanical field experiments at the university, he supervised an experimental planting for fruit tree cultivation, which was operated by the university together with the Department of Agriculture. Some of the apricot and peach varieties grown here were also used commercially. The plantation was abandoned in 1941 with Wight's departure.

Works

• The varieties of plums derived from native American species . In: Bulletin of the US Department of Agriculture . tape 172 , 1915.
• The Genus Eritrichum in North America . In: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club . tape 29 , no. 6 , 1902, pp. 407-414 .
• Native American species of Prunus . 1915.

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• 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 .
• Ex Farm Botanist WF Wight Dies The Stanford Daily, February 3, 1954.

Individual evidence

1. ^ WF Wight Starts Experiment in 1922 on Twenty-Acre Plot The Stanford Daily, October 4, 1939.
2. ^ J. Pearce Mitchell: Stanford University 1916-1941. Stanford University Press, 1958. page 16.

Web links

• Author entry and list of described plant names for William Franklin Wight at the IPNI