After earning his BS degree in botany from Columbia, he went to Rawalpindi, India to teach botany and zoology at Gordon college in the foothills of the Himalayas. His early studies led to Columbia granting him a Phd degree in 1916. He became principal of Gordon School and stayed 50 years. He retired in 1960 and went to the University of Michigan Herbarium in Ann Arbor where he classified plants from India and West Pakistan. He wrote a major treatise entitled, "An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir", a book weighing 5 lbs. As a famed botanist, he was still doing research at age 100 and died in 1993 at 103.
After earning his BS degree in botany from Columbia, he went to Rawalpindi, India to teach botany and zoology at Gordon college in the foothills of the Himalayas. His early studies led to Columbia granting him a Phd degree in 1916. He became principal of Gordon School and stayed 50 years. He retired in 1960 and went to the University of Michigan Herbarium in Ann Arbor where he classified plants from India and West Pakistan. He wrote a major treatise entitled, "An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir", a book weighing 5 lbs. As a famed botanist, he was still doing research at age 100 and died in 1993 at 103.
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