John William Harshberger (1869 - 1929)
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Biography
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Biography
1869 January 1, born in Philadelphia
1892 earns Bachelor of Science degree from University of Pennsylvania
1893 earns PhD from University of Pennsylvania
appointed instructor at University of Pennsylvania, holds an ascending series of posts there
1907 marries Helen B Cole
1923 Helen dies
1929 April 29, dies in Philadelphia
Harshberger was mainly a plant geographer, his dissertation being "Maize: A Botanical and Economic Study." He found time for a few publicaitons on the fungi, though. Humphrey notes that "he was a popular teacher and a zealous conservationist", and collected many specimens for the university herbarium on collecting expeditions in North and South America, and in Europe.
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Sources
Harry Baker Humphrey (1961) Makers of North American Botany
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Selected Publications
John William Harshberger (1899) The Botanists of Philadelphia and Their Works
John William Harshberger (1911) Phytogeographic Survey of North AmericaThis was published as volume 13 of Engler and Drude's Die Vegetations der Erde
John William Harshberger (1914) The Vegetation of South Florida
John William Harshberger (1916) Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
John William Harshberger (1917) Mycology and Plant Pathology
John William Harshberger (1920) Textbook of Pastoral and Agricultural Botany, for the Study of the Injurious and Useful Plants of Country and Farm
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