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Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Jr.
Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Jr.
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Biographical Memoirs VOLUME 88
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Elsevier. of permission by reprinted Andrews, T
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in St. Louis, Henry Andrews contributed, as did his many students, a sustained series of fossil plant studies generally entitled "Contributions to Our Knowledge of American Carboniferous Floras," published in the Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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At the University of Connecticut at Storrs (1964-1975) , Henry Andrews's research shifted to the Devonian, from West Virginia to Ellesmere Island, and along with his students and other colleagues, provided fundamental insight into the nature of early land plants.
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in 1934. At MIT Andrews was particularly influenced by Professor Bernard Procter, a food technologist and his major advisor, and by Professor Hervey Shimer, the great authority on invertebrate index fossils.
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The year at the University of Massachusetts was a great one and toward the end of it I met Professor Edgar Anderson of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, who offered me a teaching assistantship at Washington University.
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This was home to the three Andrews children -- Hollings, Henry III, and Nancy -- except in the summers when the family returned to the paternal home farm near Laconia, New Hampshire, to be joined by Henry when his field excursions or other travels were completed. Andrews's doctoral studies were initiated in England in 1937 when his advisor at Washington University shipped him off to Cambridge University to study under H
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The chapter titles were, in part, agendas for future exploration and writing, including "Past Epochs of the Arctic" and "The Fossil Hunters." Regarding climate change and floristic distribution Andrews (1947, p.
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Schopf at the Illinois State Geological Survey -- and still later at the U.S. Geological Survey Coal Geology Laboratory in Columbus, Ohio -- were great friends and colleagues.
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A few years before Henry moved to the University of Connecticut his growing interests in Devonian land plants and wanderlust for the high Arctic were solidified by an exploratory grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. In his chapter on "Past Epochs of the Arctic" (1947, p.
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The second trip permitted further exploration but emphasized the needs for mechanical transport. Perhaps the highlight of the last trip was a diverted Royal Canadian Air Force Lockheed Hercules transport flight from Alert (northernmost station in North America)
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One mistake-leaving behind the main food supply box -- led to others as the three became stranded for five days with few rations in the secluded krummholz amidst fog and pouring rain, which hampered searches from the air. Henry faulted his judgment in abandoning the base camp and attempting to walk out.
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Schopf to assist Ely Mencher in a paleobotanical-stratigraphical investigation in northern Maine, with a great deal of assistance by University of Maine geologist William Forbes. This was the beginning of more than a decade of extensive fieldwork by Henry and his graduate students, with the aid of William Forbes.
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, and was selected for the Sir Albert Charles Seward Memorial Lecture at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India (Andrews, 1961)
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Henry was a member of the Botanical Society of America and recipient of the Merit Award in 1966 for his pioneering studies of late Paleozoic land plants. In 1977 he received an award from the Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America for his "Distinguished Service to the Paleobotanical Section and Outstanding Contributions to American Paleobotany." He was a member of the International Organization of Palaeobotany and served as secretary and vice-president.
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When Henry submitted his manuscript on The Fossil Hunters to Cornell University Press, a chief response was that there ought to be an epilogue, which he provided, emphasizing human value. I suspect that Henry viewed each chapter of his book as epi
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Gensel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Karl J Niklas, Cornell University, and Nancy Andrews Adams of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, for their assistance and suggestions.
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Sir Albert Charles Seward Memorial Lec ture. Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India.
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Illinois State Geologi cal Survey Circular 480. Urbana, Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey.
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Kern. The Idaho Tempskyas and associated fossil plants.
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Index of Generic Names of Fossil Plants, 1820-1965.
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Two heterosporous species of Archaeopteris from the Upper Devonian of West Virginia. Palaeontographica 139B:47-71.
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