Lucien Marcus Underwood

Lucien Marcus Underwood

Born October 26, 1853(1853-10-26)
New Woodstock, New York, USA
Died November 16, 1907(1907-11-16) (aged 54)
Redding, Connecticut
Nationality American
Fields Botany, Mycology, Pteridology

Lucien Marcus Underwood (October 26, 1853 – November 16, 1907) was an American botanist and mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Biography

He was born in New Woodstock, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University. In 1880 he was appointed professor of geology and botany in Illinois Wesleyan University, in 1883 professor of biology in his alma mater, and in 1891 he became professor of botany in De Pauw University.[1] He died in Redding, Connecticut.[2][3]

Works

Underwood published numerous papers in botanical journals, and was the author of Our Native Ferns and how to study them (Bloomington, Ill., 1881; 4th ed., 1893), Descriptive Catalogue of North American Hepaticae (New York, 1884) and “Hepaticae” in Gray's Manual of Botany. He also prepared An Illustrated Century of Fungi with 100 specimens (1889), and Hepaticae Americanae with 160 specimens (1887-93).[1]

The standard author abbreviation Underw. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Underwood, Lucien Marcus". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 
  2. ^ Curtis CC. (1908). "A Biographical Sketch of Lucien Marcus Underwood". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 35 (1): 1–12. JSTOR 2479036. 
  3. ^ Howe MA. (1908). "Lucien Marcus Underwood: A Memorial Tribute". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 35 (1): 13–16. JSTOR 2479037. 
  4. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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