Merritt Lyndon Fernald

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Merritt Lyndon Fernald
Albion R. Hodgdon
Author abbrev. (botany)Fernald
Rimouski, Quebec
, 1905

Merritt Lyndon Fernald (October 5, 1873 – September 22, 1950) was an American botanist. He was a respected scholar of the taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. During his career, Fernald published more than 850 scientific papers and wrote and edited the seventh[1] and eighth editions of Gray's Manual of Botany. Fernald coauthored the book Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America in 1919–1920 with Alfred Kinsey, which was published in 1943.[2]

Biography

Fernald was born in

Maine State College for a year, but began working as an assistant at the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University
when he was 17. He began studying at Harvard in 1891, graduated magna cum laude in 1897, and joined the faculty at Harvard, during which time he remained active at the Herbarium.

Fernald was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900,[3] the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1935,[4] and the American Philosophical Society in 1936.[5] Fernald was awarded the 1940 Leidy Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.[6]

On April 15, 1907, Fernald married Margaret Howard Grant (1875-1957), in Providence, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of Henry Tyler Grant Jr. and Annie M. (Manton) Grant. They had three children: Katherine (1908–1986) Mary (1910–1927) and Henry Grant Fernald (1913–1982). The botanical artist Minna Fernald was a relative.[7]

The standard author abbreviation Fernald is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

References

Citations

  1. ^ Gray, Asa (1908) [1847]. Benjamin Lincoln Robinson and Merritt Lyndon Fernald (ed.). Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (Seventh edition – Illustrated ed.). New York: American Book Company.
  2. ISSN 0028-0712
    , July 1, 2006, Vol. 115, Issue 6.
  3. ^ "Merritt Lyndon Fernald". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  4. ^ "Merritt Fernald". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  6. S2CID 198160356
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  7. ^ Laskow, Sarah. "Found: A Lost Painting Collection of Florida Wildflowers". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Fernald.

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