Gladys P. Anderson papers

Gladys Pomeroy Anderson was curator of the lichen herbarium of the Sullivant Moss Society in 1934-1935. Under her care, it was placed with the New York Botanical Garden where it remains today. Marshall Howe made arrangements for the lichen herbarium to be housed in NYBG herbarium where it remains today. She was born in Newark, N.J. on May 16, 1888. She attended N.J. State Normal School, Columbia Teachers College and graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in 1927. From 1917-1919 she was a special student and assistant in Botany at McGill University. She worked as a photomicrographer for the Canadian Forest Products Laboratory and several rubber companies. It is said that she was instrumental in creating the New Jersey part of the Appalachian Trail. In 1935 she contributed an article "Centraria Fahlunensis var. Frostii (Du Rietz) Zahlb., in New York State and in Pennsylvania" to the May-June issue of The Bryologist (vol. 38, no. 3) . She was the German translator for the Sullivant Moss Society, responsible for translating scientific articles into English. She was married to George Ernest Anderson in1913 and lived in Rahway, N.J. They had one son, George Ernest Anderson, Jr. who was living in Newark, DE in 1971.