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Reed Clark Rollins
Reed Clark Rollins
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the Organization for Tropical Studies. His 30-year leaclership as the director of the Gray Herbarium elevatecl Harvard to one of the worIcl's top centers for studies in systematic ant!
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Reecl joined Harvard University in the fall of 1936 en c! receiver!
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Reec! was among the first North American taxonomists to use chromosome ciata in monographic studies, as evidenced by his account of the genus Physaria(1939~.
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cliscoverec! that a number of western North American genera have pollen with more than three colpi, thus providing solicl evidence of the direct relationships among them.
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artificial interspecific hybricIization in the genus. Reecl returned to Harvard as associate professor en cl clirector of the Gray Herbarium (effective July I, 1948)
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as a member of the executive committee from 1963 to 1968 en cl continual to attend the OTS board meetings through 1973. At the Harvard level, Reed played a major role in unification of the plant en cl library material of the five botanical institutes ( Gray Herbarium, ArnoIcl Arboretum, FarIow Herbarium, Botanical Museum, en c!
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by extensive crossing experiments in Cambridge, lecl to publication of one of the classic studies on natural interspecific hybridization. It is interesting to note that Reecl cliscoverec!
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en c! to show how critical systematic methodology would lead to sound solutions.
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The phylogeny of North American mustards was not much known in the late 1980s en cl early 199Os, en cl only cluring the past four years have we starter! to use molecular ciata en c!
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Reecl served as a member of the eclitorial committee of the International Cocle of Botanical Nomenclature for nearly thirty years. In aciclition, he was the editor in chief of Rhodora from 1950 to 1963, Contributions from the Gray Herbarium from ~ 950 through July ~ 978, Occasional Papers of the Fariow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany from June 1974 through July 1978, en cl Publications from the Bussey Institution of Harvard University from 1975 through 1979.
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International Botanical Congresses, Congress Mecial on the 25th anniversary of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (1975) , GoIcl Seal of the National Council of State Garden Clubs ~98~)
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1941 A monographic study of Arabis in western North America. Rhodora 43:289-325, 348-411, 425-81.
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Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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1993 The Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford, Calif.
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