Reed C. Rollins

Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 1911 – 28 April 1998) was an American botanist, professor at Harvard University and one of the founders of both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy[2] and the Organization for Tropical Studies.[3] He was also the second president of each of them.[2][4]

Reed Clark Rollins
Born(1911-12-07)December 7, 1911
DiedApril 28, 1998(1998-04-28) (aged 86)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Wyoming
Harvard University[1]
OccupationBotanist, Professor

Sources
  • Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. "Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 1911 – 28 April 1998)" Taxon 48(2): pp. 225–56
  • Campbell, Christopher S. and Greene, Craig W. (1988) "A Tribute to Reed Clark Rollins, Recipient of the 1987 Asa Gray Award" Systematic Botany 13(1): pp. 170–171
gollark: Yes.
gollark: I mean, I prefer "let's learn about some historical issues regarding [GROUP]" over "[GROUP] great, let us all praise [GROUP]".
gollark: Sorry, have been.
gollark: They have based on skin color, which is also very arbitrary.
gollark: It would be like being proud of eye color or something.

References
  1. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hua38010
  2. Cowan, R. S. and Stafleu, F. A. (1982) "The origin and early history of IAPT" Taxon 31(3): pp. 415–420
  3. Stone, Donald E. (1988) "The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS): A Success Story in Graduate Training and Research" in Almeda, Frank and Pringle, Catherine M. (1988) Tropical Rainforests: Diversity and Conservation California Academy of Sciences and Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, California, pp. 143–187, p. 152 ISBN 0-940228-19-X, accessed 6 April 2009
  4. "Organization for Tropical Studies - The Rogues Gallery of Presidents", accessed 6 April 2009
Botanist designation



  1. IPNI.  Rollins.
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