Maguire, Bassett, 1904-1991

LC control no.	n 81006891
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Maguire, Bassett, 1904-1991 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	19040804
Death date	19910206
Place of birth	Gadsden (Ala.)
Affiliation	Utah State Agricultural College New York Botanical Garden
Profession or occupation	Botanists
Found in	Hitchcock, C. L. A revision of the North of Silene, 1947. The flora of the Meseta del Cerro Jana, 1972: title page (Bassett Maguire) The New York Botanical Garden Mertz Library Archives and Manuscript Collections, via WWW, April 3, 2014 (Records of the Herbarium (RG4) Bassett Maguire Records (1930-1991); Bassett Maguire was born on August 4, 1904 in Alabama City (Gadsden) Alabama; in 1923 he enrolled in the University of Georgia and received a B.S. degree in three years, with first honors in botany and zoology; in 1925, he participated in the field program at the University of Pittsburgh in tropical ecology at Kartabo, British Guiana; he obtained a teaching assistantship in Botany at Cornell University in 1927; by 1931 he had completed his course requirements but not his thesis when he was offered a position as Assistant Professor of Botany at Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah; while in Utah he developed the Intermountain Herbarium and served as its principal collector and curator until 1942; in January 1943, Bassett Maguire visited the New York Botanical Garden, where he was to work on the flora of Utah; by July he was listed as "curator" and subsequently served the New York Botanical Garden in many roles as Curator (1943-1958), Head Curator (1958-1961), Nathanial Lord Britton Distinquished Senior Curator (1961-1971), Assistant Director (1968-1969), Director of Botany (1969-1971, 1974-1975); Senior Scientist (1972-1974); and Senior Scientist Emeritus from 1975 until his death on February 6, 1991)
Associated language	eng