E. C. Abbe

  • Name

    Ernst C. Abbe

  • Dates

    1905 - 2000

  • Specialities

    Pteridophytes, Spermatophytes

  • Roles

    Author, Determiner, Collector

  • Movement Details

    United States of America, Canada, Panama, Thailand, Malaysia

  • Notes

    Collector Notes: MIN, NY, K; Central America, Canal Zone, British Columbia, Quebec, Labrador. Set or sets, or at least a large proportion of the set or sets, is deposited in GH


    From Harvard Herbaria Botanist online database (9 Aug 2012):
    [author note: Herbarium and types: before 1935 at GH, later collections at MINN;duplicates at A, CAN, CU, DAO, E, GH, K, MIN, MT, NO, NY, PH; morphology, Arctic flora] [collector note: MIN, NY, K; Central America, Canal Zone, British Columbia, Quebec, Labrador. Set or sets, or at least a large proportion of the set or sets, is deposited in GH]
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    John Simon Gugenheim Foundations Memorial Award (http://www.gf.org/fellows/8-ernst-cleveland-abbe):

    Ernst Cleveland Abbe
    1941 - US & Canada Competition
    Natural Sciences - Earth Science

    BIO

    As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1941–42:

    ABBE, ERNST CLEVELAND: Appointed for studies of the bearing of historical, climatic, and geological factors on the vegetation of a heavily glaciated region in the eastern subarctic; tenure, twelve months from August 1, 1941.

    Born August 21, 1905, Washington, D. C. Education: Cornell University, B.S., 1928, M.S., 1930; Harvard University, M.A., 1931, Ph.D., 1934. National Research Council Fellow, Columbia University, 1933–35.

    Botanist, Summer, 1931, Grenfell-Forbes Northern Labrador Expedition; Research Assistant, Summer, 1932, Arnold Arboretum Expedition to British Columbia and Alberta; in charge, Summer, 1939, University of Minnesota Expedition to Hudson Bay; Instructor in Botany, 1935–37, Assistant Professor, 1937–40, Associate Professor, 1940—, University of Minnesota.

    Publications: Articles in Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, Botanical Gazette, Rhodora, Science, Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Contributor to Northernmost Labrador Mapped from the Air.
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  • Collections

    Botanical Collections