Paul Carpenter Standley

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Paul Carpenter Standley (1884 in Avalon, Missouri – June 2, 1963 Tegucigalpa, Honduras) was an American botanist.

Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri. He attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri and New Mexico State College, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907, and received a masters degree from New Mexico State College in 1908. He remained at New Mexico State College as an assistant from 1908-1909. He took a position at the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, from 1909 to 1928. In spring, 1928, he took a position at the Field Museum of Natural History, where he worked until 1950. After his retirement in 1950, he moved to the Escuela Agricola Panamericana, where he worked in the library and herbarium and did field work until 1956, when he stopped doing botanical work. In 1957 he moved to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he died on the afternoon of June 2, 1963.

He contributed to the Trees and Shrubs of Mexico, Flora of Guatemala, and Flora of Costa Rica.

The standard author abbreviation Standl. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

Williams, Louis O. "Paul Carpenter Standley". Taxon, Vol. XII, No. 7, Aug.-Sept. 1963.

↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Standl. "Author Query for 'Standl.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

External links

Works by Paul Carpenter Standley at the Internet Archive

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 17371213 LCCN: n79093341 ISNI: 0000 0001 1468 3867 GND: 1024779041

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Name	Standley, Paul Carpenter
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Short description	American botanist
Date of birth	1884
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Date of death	June 2, 1963
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