Charles Edwin Bessey

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Charles Edwin Bessey (1845-1915) was an American botanist, born at Milton, Ohio. He graduated in 1869 at the Michigan Agricultural College, studied at Harvard under Prof. Asa Gray, in 1872 and in 1875-76, and was professor of botany at the Iowa Agricultural College from 1870 to 1884. In 1884 he was appointed professor of botany and in 1909 head dean at the University of Nebraska. He served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1911. He published:

  • The Geography of Iowa (1876)
  • Botany for High Schools and Colleges (1880)
  • The Essentials of Botany (1884)
  • Elementary Botany (1904)
  • Plant Migration Studies (1905)
  • Synopsis of Plant Phyla (1907)
  • Outlines of Plant Phyla (1909)
  • written with others, New Elementary Agriculture (ninth edition, 1911)

His arrangement of flowering plants taxa, with focus on the evolutionary divergence of primitive forms, is considered by many as the system most likely to form the basis of a modern, comprehensive taxonomy of the plant kingdom.

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  • Overfield, Richard A. Science With Practice: Charles E. Bessey and the Maturing of American Botany. Iowa State University Press Series in the History of Technology and Science. Iowa State Press, 1993. (ISBN 0-8138-1822-2)
  • Pool, Raymond J. A brief sketch of the life and work of Charles Edwin Bessey. Botanical Society of America, 1915.

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