| LC control no. | n 79059861 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Schultes, Richard Evans |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Amazon River Region |
| Birth date | 1915-01-12 |
| Death date | 2001-04-10 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | Harvard University. Botanical Museum |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists College teachers |
| Found in | Vestal, P. A. The economic botany ... 1939. His Plants of the gods, 1987, c1979: CIP t.p. (Richard Evans Schultes) data sheet (b. 1915) Harvard University. Botanical Museum. The glass flowers at Harvard, 1982: t.p. (Richard Evans Schultes, Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University) Info. from MH, April 18, 2001 (New York times (New York, N.Y. : New England final ed.), Apr. 13, 2001: p. C11 (Richard E. Schultes, 86, dies; died on Tuesday [Apr. 10, 2001] in Boston)) Harvard University Herbaria WWW site, 15 Aug., 2017 (Richard Evans Schultes Papers; Richard Evans Schultes (RES) was born on January 12, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts; earned his A.B (1937), A.M. (1938), and Ph.D. (1941) from Harvard University; as an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry, RES collected approximately thirty-five hundred specimens of the most important rubber tree genus Hevea; After his return to Massachusetts in 1953, RES made almost annual trips to the Amazon basin; Upon his return and continuing for five years until 1958, RES served as curator of the Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames; He then became the Curator of Economic Botany, a job he held from 1958 - 1985, executive director of the Botanical Museum from 1967-1970, and director of the Museum from 1970 - 1985; RES was also on the Harvard University faculty, teaching undergraduate and graduate study in the university's extension program beginning in 1970; He was appointed the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences in 1973 and Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology in 1980 and Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology Emeritus in 1985; died April 10, 2001, in Boston, Massachusetts) <http://botlib.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/Nash/schultes.htm> |
| Associated language | eng |
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