Franklin Sumner Earle
Earle circa 1903
Franklin Sumner Earle (September 4, 1856 – January 31, 1929) was an American
sugar cane. He was the first mycologist to work at the New York Botanical Garden, and was the author of The Genera of North American Gill Fungi.[1]
Life
Frankin Sumner Earle was born in
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign sporadically in the 1880s, but never earned a degree. He studied with the mycologist Thomas Jonathan Burrill.[2]
Soon after college, Earle served as the superintendent of the Mississippi Agriculture Experiment Station (1892–1895). Soon after that Earle worked as a biologist and horticulturist of the Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station (1895–1900).[2]
Between 1890 and 1899 Earle was co-editor of three exsiccata works called Economic fungi with Arthur Bliss Seymour.[3]
Earle worked as an Assistant Curator in charge of mycological collections at the New York Botanical Garden in 1901.[2]
His sister was the fiction writer, Mary Tracy Earle.[4]
References
- ^ "Franklin Sumner Earle". IMA Historical Index of Mycologists. Retrieved 2006-05-24.
- ^ JSTOR 3753838.
- ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- ^ "University of California: In Memoriam, 1943-1945". texts.cdlib.org. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Earle.
External links
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- Franklin Sumner Earle Records- New York Botanical Garden
- Josephine Skehan and the Mountains Near Gray
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