Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature. Delivered as a Lecture Before the Medical Historical Society of Chicago, 1910, and Before the University of Nebraska, October 16, 1913
Description:... This book contains brief biographies, portraits and pictures of the specimens that the botanists were noted for. The botanists discussed range from Joseph Trimble Rothrock, an American environmentalist, recognized as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania to Charles Wilkins Short, a Kentuckian who discovered several species of plants and has six species of plants named after him, who also practiced medicine and taught materia medica.
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