Edward Lewis Sturtevant

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E. Lewis Sturtevant

Edward Lewis Sturtevant (born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1842; died July 30, 1898) was an American agronomist and botanist who wrote Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World.

E. Lewis Sturtevant was born in Massachusetts in 1842 to a family of Puritan ancestry. While still a youth his parents died, and Lewis was raised by an aunt.^[1] From 1859 to 1861 he attended Bowdoin College (from which he later received a B.A. and M.A.) and then served in Army during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1863. In 1866 Sturtevant graduated from Harvard Medical School.

In 1867, with his two brothers, Sturtevant founded "Waushakum Farm" in South Framingham, Massachusetts. The farm was used for various agricultural experiments, and Sturtevant wrote extensively for various publications, often using the nom de plume of Zelco. In 1887, he was elected President of the Society for Promoting Agriculture Science.^[2] He also studied the history of beans, and is known for building the first lysimeter in America.^[3]

Sturtevant assembled voluminous notes on the various species of edible plants of the world, which were posthumously edited and published as Notes on Edible Plants (1919), reissued in 1972 as Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World.

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

Literature

edward lewis Sturtevant, joseph n. Sturtevant. 1875. The Dairy Cow: A Monograph on the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle. Ed. A. Williams & Co. 252 pp. Reprint BiblioLife, 2010. 274 pp. ISBN 1-175-50254-5
1899. Varieties of corn. Bulletin Nº 57. Ed. Government Printing Office. 108 pp.
1919. Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. Ed. J. B. Lyon Co. 696 pp. Reprint General Books LLC, 2010. 620 pp. ISBN 1-154-86164-3

References

↑ Edward Lewis Sturtevant. A Biographical Sketch C. S. Plumb Missouri Botanical Garden Annual Report, Vol. 1899, (1899), pp. 71-84 (article consists of 14 pages) Published by: Missouri Botanical Garden Press
↑ Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
↑ The Cambridge World History of Food By Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, pg 274
↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Sturtev. "Author Query for 'Sturtev.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

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Name	Sturtevant, Edward Lewis
Alternative names	Sturtevant, E. Lewis
Short description	Agronomist and botanist
Date of birth	January 23, 1842
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date of death	July 30, 1898
Place of death	South Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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