| LC control no. | no2021001948 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Allen, Caroline Kathryn, 1904-1975 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1904-04-07 |
| Death date | 1975-04-06 |
| Place of birth | Pawling (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Chapel Hill (N.C.) |
| Field of activity | Botany Lauraceae |
| Affiliation | New York Botanical Garden |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists |
| Found in | Caroline Kathryn Allen Papers (Finding aid), via LuEsther T. Mertz Library website, January 7, 2021 (Dr. Caroline Kathryn (C. K.) Allen (1904-1975) was a taxonomist specializing in Lauraceae. She served the New York Botanical Garden as an honorary Collaborator in Lauraceae from 1951 to 1959 and as a Research Associate from 1959 to 1974. In the course of her career she described over 275 new species, wrote numerous journal articles and contributed sections on Lauraceae in fourteen Flora from Panama to Okinawa, collaborating with authorities such as Bassett Maguire, E. D. Merrill, J. A. Steyermark, E. H. Walker, and Robert E. Woodson. An accomplished botanical artist, she often illustrated her own articles and used her skills to record the microscopic dissections demonstrating the distinctions among the genera of Nectandra, Ocotea and Pleurothyrium. Dr. Allen was born in Pawling, N.Y. on April 7, 1904. Her father, Howard N. Allen, was a member of the New York State Assembly, serving at times on the Agriculture Committee and the Committee on Religious Societies. She studied Botany and Chemistry at Vassar, graduating in 1926. After a year at the Arnold Arboretum under Alfred Rehder and M. L. Fernald she transferred to the Missouri Botanical Garden where she studied under J. M. Greenman, receiving her Ph.D. in 1932. Her dissertation, "A Monograph of the American species of the genus Halenia" was published in 1933. ... She retired from the NYBG in May, 1974. According to those present, she simply closed the door to her office one evening and never came back. She removed to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she died on April 6, 1975.) <https://www.nybg.org/library/finding_guide/archv/allen_ppf.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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