Richard D. Wood papers
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is devoted to data related to Wood’s exhaustive Characeae research. One of three typescripts of the Index Nominarum Characearum: An Index to All Known Published Names of Extant Members of the Characeae (1953), the Monograph of the Characeae (1965) and Kozo Imahori’s drawings are included in the collection.
Dates
- 1949-1976
Biographical / Historical
Richard. Dawson Wood, freshwater phycologist and professor of botany, was born in Toledo, Ohio, on April 28, 1918. He received B.A. and B.S. degrees from Ohio State University in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1947 from Northwestern University. From 1947 he served on the faculty of the botany department at the University of Rhode Island. Wood was a specialist in the taxonomy and distribution of the Characeae. He was responsible for reorganizing the Characeae classification and publishing Monograph of the Characeae (1965) with illustrations by Kozo Imahori. He belonged to numerous professional organizations, was a Fulbright Research scholar in Australia and won the Darbaker prize in phycology in 1966. Wood died in 1977.
Extent
1.33 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
Separated Materials
Series 6: Drawings have been removed to the Art and Illustration Collection - #64
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Archives Volunteer
- Date
- November 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Originally processed by an archives volunteer in November 2000. Converted to EAD in July 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).
Revision Statements
- July 2006: Converted to EAD by Kathleene Konkle.
Repository Details
Part of the New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Archives Repository
New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx NY 10458 United States
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