J. R. Reeder
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Name
John R. Reeder
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Dates
1914 - 2009
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Specialities
Spermatophytes, Poaceae
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Roles
Author, Determiner, Collector
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Movement Details
United States of America, Papua New Guinea, Mexico
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Notes
From Flora of North America Newsletter 23(1): 2009.
John Reeder
1914 – 2009
John Reeder, famed agrostologist, passed away
peacefully at his home in Tucson, Arizona, on the
evening of February 8, 2009. He was born in
Charlotte, Michigan, on July 29, 1914. He grew up
on a farm there, and first went to the University at
Corvallis, Oregon. It was here he met Charlotte
Goodding, whose father was Leslie Goodding, who
later became a well-known botanist in southern
Arizona. John was married to Charlotte in 1941 in
Corvallis, Oregon. She was working in the Herbarium
there. He joined the Armed Forces near the beginning
of World War II. He was stationed in New Guinea,
where he collected grasses to send back to the U.S.
Herbarium. Among his collections was Melinus
repens, which was then thought to be a native of New
Guinea for a time. John was accepted at Harvard, and
he attended classes there, living on the GI bill payment
and simultaneously holding a job at Jamaica Plain
[Arnold Arboretum] Herbarium, which boasted a fine
library. He received his Ph.D. and worked at Yale the
next 20 years, teaching Dendrology and Plant
Taxonomy through the Forestry Graduate School.
John and Charlotte left Yale in 1968 to go to Rocky
Mountain Herbarium at Laramie, Wyoming, studying
grasses in his retirement. Later they moved to
Tombstone, Arizona, for three years. Tombstone
proved to be too far from a major herbarium, and
they moved to Tucson in 1983, to the house John and
Charlotte lived in until his death. John and Charlotte
were both very active in their older years, supplying
the Herbarium with a bent toward grasses and provided ARIZ with one of the best, and best curated,
grass collections in the world.
John Reeder was an author of Poaceae for the
Flora of North America, as was his wife Charlotte.
Charlotte plans to continue her study of grasses at
ARIZ, identifying and publishing works on grasses.
—Philip Jenkins, ARIZ
From Harvard Herbaria database (accessed 27 Jan 2014):
Name Reeder, John Raymond
Date of birth 1914
Date of death 2009
Remarks [author note: Herbarium and types: ARIZ] [collector note: ARIZ. New Guinea (col. 1943-1944): A, GH, MICH, NY, RSA, US]
ASA Botanist ID 143564 botanist
GUID http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/bb0a690f-90a0-41c1-a421-c601b64d23f1
Variant name John Raymond Reeder
Author name Reeder
B & P Author Abbrev. Reeder
Standard/Label Name J. R. Reeder
Full Name Reeder, John Raymond
Geography Author United States of America
Geography Collector Papua New Guinea, United States of America
Specialty Author Spermatophytes
Specialty Collector Phanerogams
Citation as Author
Citation as Author
Citation as Author Email message on the death year from Philip D. Jenkins (ARIZ)
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