| LC control no. | n 50070104 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lawrence, George H. M. (George Hill Mathewson), 1910-1978 |
| Variant(s) | Lawrence, G. H. M. (George Hill Mathewson), 1910-1978 Lūrāns, Zhūrzh H. M., 1910-1978 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1910-06-19 |
| Death date | 1978-06-10 |
| Place of birth | East Greenwich (R.I.) |
| Affiliation | Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hunt Botanical Library |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists |
| Special note | Old catalog heading: Lawrence, George Hill Mathewson, 1910- |
| Found in | His Keys to cultivated plants, 1946. Hunt Botanical Library. The Hunt Botanical Library, 1970: t.p. (George H. M. Lawrence) p. 47 (director of the Hunt Botanical Library) NUCMC data from Univ. R.I. Lib. for His Papers, 1850-1982 (George Hill Mathewson Lawrence; 1910-1978; dir., Hunt Botanical Library; after retirement lived in East Greenwich, R.I.) OCLC, Oct. 9, 2008: (hdg: Lawrence, George H. M.; Lawrence, George H. M. (George Hill Mathewson), 1910-; Lawrence, George H. M., 1910-; Lawrence, George Hill Mathewson; Lawrence, George Hill Mathewson, 1910-; Lawrence, George Hill Mathewson, 1910-1978; usage: George H.M. Mathewson [predominant form]; G.H.M. Mathewson) University of Rhode Island WWW site, 5 Mar., 2015 (George Hill Mathewson Lawrence; for many years one of the preeminent botanists in the world; born East Greenwich, Rhode Island. 19 June, 1910; in 1951, he was named Director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium and in that same year, he published his seminal botany textbook "Taxonomy of Vascular Plants"; left in 1960 to assume the position of director of the newly established Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library; stepped down as Director of the Hunt Botanical Library at the end of 1970 and returned to his native Rhode Island; died East Greenwich, 10 June, 1978) <http://www.uri.edu/library/special_collections/registers/manuscripts/msg49.xml> |
| Associated language | eng |
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