Benson, Lyman David, 1909-1993
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found: His The cacti of Arizona, c1940.
found: His Trees and shrubs of the southwestern deserts, c1981:t.p. (Lyman Benson)
found: JSTOR biography pages for Lyman David Benson, viewed February 24, 2014:Page caption (Benson, Lyman David (1909-1993)) ; biography section (American botanist from California, born and raised in Kelseyville, north of San Francisco. He received MA (1931) and PhD (1938) degrees from Stanford. His doctoral dissertation, a treatise on the North American Ranunculaceae, was published a decade later in American Midland Naturalist. [After graduate school] he was hired by the University of Arizona as an instructor and botanist. In 1944 he moved to Pomona College as Associate Professor, Chairman of the Botany Department, and Director of the Herbarium, into which he incorporated his personal herbarium of approximately 21,000 specimens. He was concurrently appointed to Claremont Graduate School. In 1949 he was promoted to full Professor and in 1974, after his retirement, he was named Professor Emeritus. His books include The Cacti of Arizona (1940), Trees and Shrubs of the Southwestern Deserts (1944, 1954, 1981), Plant Classification (1957, 1979), Plant Taxonomy, Methods and Principles (1962), and The Native Cacti of California (1969).) - http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000000612
found: Pomona College timeline online, page for 1998, viewed February 24, 2014:Paragraph: Pomona Donates Herbarium to RSABG (Lyman Benson, a professor of botany from 1944 to 1974)
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1979-10-10: new
2023-09-09: revised
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