Harley Harris Bartlett
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Harley Harris Bartlett (March 9, 1886 – February 21, 1960) was an American botanist, biochemist, and anthropologist. He was an expert in tropical botany and an authority on Batak language and culture.[1] The standard author abbreviation Bartlett is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]
Early life
Bartlett was born in
Career
Bartlett was hired by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, where he worked on plant nutrition and biochemistry as well as taxonomy. Inspired by botanist Hugo de Vries, he began publishing on the genetics of the genus Oenothera.[1]
After an invitation from Frederick Charles Newcombe, Bartlett joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1915. He made his first collecting trip abroad in 1918 when he was sent to Sumatra with United States Rubber Company to search for high-yielding sources of rubber. In 1919, became director of the University of Michigan's Botanical Gardens, and in 1922, he became head of the Department of Botany. Bartlett served as president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters from 1924 to 1925, and president of the Botanical Society of America in 1927.[1] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1929.[3]
Bartlett returned to Sumatra in 1927, and became fascinated by the culture and language of the
Bartlett retired from the University of Michigan in 1956, but he remained as Professor Emeritus of Botany and Director Emeritus of the Botanical Gardens. Bartlett was the author of 179 publications.[1]
Bartlett died of a heart attack at the age of 73 on February 21, 1960, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[5]
Legacy
He is commemorated in the name of three genera, Harleya, Bartlettina and Siraitia, and many species, including Anemia bartlettii, Buxus bartlettii, Rhipsalis bartlettii, and Panicum bartletii.[6]
The herbarium at the University of Michigan holds his collections of over 60,000 specimens. In 1955, the Department of Botany established the Harley Harris Bartlett Plant Exploration Fund as a way to finance botanical field trips.[1]
References
- ^ JSTOR 2482414.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Bartlett.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
- ^ Smith, Matthew J. Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
- ^ "HARLEY HARRIS BARTLETT".
- ^ "Bartlett, Harley Harris (1886-1960)".
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External links
- Works by or about Harley Harris Bartlett at Internet Archive
- Harley Harris Bartlett Papers, 1909–1960 at Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
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