W. F. Mahler
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Name
William Fred Mahler
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Dates
30 Aug 1930 - 2 Jul 2013
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Specialities
Spermatophytes, Bryophytes
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Roles
Author, Determiner, Collector
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Movement Details
United States of America
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Notes
Collector Notes: SMU
From homage to William F. Mahler, on his retirement from Botanical Research Institute of Texas, in 1993:
born Iowa Park, Texas in 1930
education:
BA, Miswestern State University
MS, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
PhD, Univesity of Tennesee (1968)
Emploment;
Southern Methodist University, Fort Worth, TX: 1971-1987, in charge of the herbarium SMU, ca. 328,000 specimens in 1971, ca. 400, 000 specimens on 1987, Associtae Professor of Biology at SMU by 1987. As teacher & herbarium staff.
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, 1987, when SMU library & herbarium transferred BRIT. Oct 1987-Jun 1991, BRIT was still located at SMU. BRIT moved into own building in June 1991. Director until 1993.
Editor of botanical journal: Sida for a long time.
Author:
Keys to the vascular plants of the Black Gap Wildlife Management Area, Brewster County, Texas [by] Wm. F. Mahler. [Dallas] 1971.
Botanical survey of the Lake Monticello area, by Wm. F. Mahler. [Dallas,] Southern Methodist University, Dept. of Anthropology [c1973]. Southern Methodist University contributions in anthropology ; no. 9
Flora of Taylor County, Texas; a manual of the vascular plants with selected sketches, by Wm. F. Mahler. I[Dallas, SMU Book Store] 1973
The mosses of Texas : a manual of the moss flora with sketches / by Wm. F. Mahler. Dallas, Tex. : SMU Herbarium, 1980. Typed script.
Shinners' manual of the North Central Texas flora / Wm. F. Mahler. (1988) Sida no. 16 -
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