| LC control no. | n 88612972 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ricker, Percy Leroy, 1878-1973 |
| Variant(s) | Ricker, P. L. (Percy Leroy), 1878-1973 Ricker, Percy Leroy, b. 1878 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1878-03-27 |
| Death date | 1973-02-02 |
| Place of birth | Brunswick (Me.) |
| Place of death | San Angelo (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Grasses Nature photography Botany |
| Affiliation | United States. Bureau of Plant Industry United States National Museum. Department of Botany Washington Biologists' Field Club |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists Photographers |
| Found in | LCCN 07-41120: His A preliminary list of Maine fungi, 1902 (hdg.: Ricker, Percy Leroy, 1878- ; usage: Percy LeRoy Ricker) OCLC, Dec. 1, 2009 (hdgs.: Ricker, Percy Leroy, b. 1878; Ricker, Percy L.; Ricker, Percy Leroy; Ricker, P. L.; usage: Percy L. Ricker; P.L. Ricker; Percy Leroy Ricker) Washington Biologists' Field Club website, Oct. 25, 2016: (Percy Leroy Ricker; Percy was born on March 27, 1878, in Brunswick, Maine. He received a BS degree and an MS degree in 1901 from the University of Maine where he was an assistant in the Department of Biology. He was hired in 1901 at the age of 23 as scientific assistant agrostologist in the Bureau of Plant Industries of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; He was an expert photographer of wild flowers and traveled widely in the United States leaving behind a tremendous collection of glass negatives when he left the U. S. Department of Agriculture; He retired as an associate botanist in National Museum's Department of Botany in 1948 at age 70; He died February 2, 1973, at the age of 94, in the Nursing Center of San Angelo, Texas; Percy was elected to the Washington Biologists' Field Club in 1905, was treasurer 1908-38 (probably a record that will not be broken), served on various committees, and was awarded an honorary membership in 1957) <http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/perry/bios/rickerpercy.htm> |
| Associated language | eng |
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