Scientist. A native of Orono, Maine, he was a botanist who is best known for his comprehensive studies of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. Born to a University of Maine college professor named Merritt Caldwell Fernald, and his wife Mary Lovejoy Heywood, he was also considered one of the most respected scholars of taxonomy and phytogeography. He was educated at Orono High School, and later at the Maine State College, where he studied botany. While still in high school he collected several plant specimens and published two of his first botanical papers. At the age of 17, he took a job as an assistant at the Gray Herbarium, located at Harvard University in Boston. He eventually began further studies at Harvard in 1891, graduating six years later in 1897, and finally joining the university faculty around the same time. His published works include over 850 scientific papers and editing the eighth edition of "Gray's Manual Of Botany". He is also noted as a co-author with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey on the book, "Edible Wild Plants Of Eastern North America in 1919-1920", which was published in 1943, seven years before his death.
Scientist. A native of Orono, Maine, he was a botanist who is best known for his comprehensive studies of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. Born to a University of Maine college professor named Merritt Caldwell Fernald, and his wife Mary Lovejoy Heywood, he was also considered one of the most respected scholars of taxonomy and phytogeography. He was educated at Orono High School, and later at the Maine State College, where he studied botany. While still in high school he collected several plant specimens and published two of his first botanical papers. At the age of 17, he took a job as an assistant at the Gray Herbarium, located at Harvard University in Boston. He eventually began further studies at Harvard in 1891, graduating six years later in 1897, and finally joining the university faculty around the same time. His published works include over 850 scientific papers and editing the eighth edition of "Gray's Manual Of Botany". He is also noted as a co-author with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey on the book, "Edible Wild Plants Of Eastern North America in 1919-1920", which was published in 1943, seven years before his death.
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1873 Merritt L Fernald 1950
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1875 Margaret H Grant 1957
1910 Mary Fernald 1927
1903 Katharine F Bruce 1986
1903 Harold G Bruce 1992
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