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Brown, Forest B. H. (Forest Buffen Harkness), 1873-1954

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Personal name headingBrown, Forest B. H. (Forest Buffen Harkness), 1873-1954
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Variant(s)Brown, Forest Buffen Harkness, 1873-1954
Birth date1873
Death date1954
Field of activityPteridophyta Phanerogams
AffiliationUnited States. Forest Service
Ohio State University
Yale University
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Profession or occupationBotanists
Found inFlora of southeastern Polynesia, 1931- : t.p. (Forest B.H. Brown)
OCLC, 30 Oct. 2002 (Brown, Forest B.H. (Forest Buffen Harkness), 1873-1954)
Wikipedia, June 26, 2023 (Forest B. H. Brown; Forest Buffen Harkness Brown (1873-1954) was an American botanist known for his work on pteridophytes and spermatophytes; Brown studied forestry, systematic botany, and ecology at the University of Michigan in 1902, receiving his master's degree in 1903; early in his career, Brown studied plant distribution on the flood plain of the Huron River in Ypsilanti, Michigan; he worked for the United States Forest Service before joining Ohio State University as professor of botany; Brown pursued further research on Hawaiian trees at Yale University for two years and received his Ph. D. in 1918; he married biologist Elizabeth Dorothy Wuist on August 20 of the same year, and the two of them performed two years of field work on the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bayard Dominick Expedition to the Marquesas Islands (1921-1922); Brown and his wife also visited the Tuamotu archipelago and New Zealand where they collected 9000 dried plant and 120 wood samples; in 1920, Brown was a research fellow at Yale when he became a staff botanist for the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii; his wife joined him at the Bishop Museum as a research associate in cryptogamic botany)
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