W. F. Mahler

  • Name

    William Fred Mahler

  • Dates

    30 Aug 1930 - 2 Jul 2013

  • Specialities

    Spermatophytes, Bryophytes

  • Roles

    Author, Determiner, Collector

  • Movement Details

    United States of America

  • 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

  • Collections

    Botanical Collections