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| Caroline Kathryn Allen (07 Apr) 1904 - 1975 (06 Apr) |
| Caroline Allen was an American plant taxonomist and botanical illustrator, with expertise in the Lauraceae. She was a staff member at both the Arnold Arboretum and the New York Botanical Garden and during her career, described over 275 species. Allen did her undergraduate work at Vassar College and spent two years as a herbarium assistant to Alfred Rehder at the Arnold Arboretum. She received her Master's and Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, then returned to the Arnold Arboretum and, at the direction of E.D. Merrill, commenced work on a growing collection of Asian Lauraceae. When Asian expeditions were ended during wartime, she turned to New World Lauraceae. In 1948 Allen returned to New York to care for her aging mother and grandmother and began her association with the New York Botanical Garden. She was appointed a "collaborator in the Lauraceae," working with Bassett Maguire on several National Science Foundation grants, and in 1959-1972 was a Visiting Research Associate supported by six continuous NSF grants in her own name. Allen visited European herbaria and made field trips to Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil and Venezuela. She retired due to illness and relocated to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she died in 1975. |
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| 1929. Allen, C.K.. A Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of the Genus Halenia. (): . | Google Scholar |
| 1933. Allen, Caroline K.. A Monograph of the American Species of the Genus Halenia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1): 119-222. | Google Scholar |
| 1938. Allen, Caroline K.. Studies in the Lauraceae. I. Chinese and Indo-Chinese Species of Litsea, Neolitsea, and Actinodaphne. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1): 361-434. | Google Scholar |
| 1944. Allen, Caroline K.. NEW SPECIES OF HALENIA FROM COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA. Caldasia (9): 363-366. | Google Scholar |
| 1945. Allen, C.K.. Studies in the Lauraceae, VI: Preliminary Survey of the Mexican and Central American Species. (): . | Google Scholar |
| 1948. Allen, Caroline K.. Flora of Panama. Part V. Fascicle I. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1): 1-106. | Google Scholar |
| 1948. Allen, C.K.. Nectandra Coriacea: Sweetwood, Native of Florida, Yucatan and the West Indies. Family Lauraceae. (): . | Google Scholar |
| 1951. Allen, Caroline K. and Luis E. Gregory. A New Species of Licaria from Puerto Rico. Brittonia (4): 267-269. | Google Scholar |
| 1963. Allen, C.K.. Mexico, 1963, [numbers 100-127].. (): . | Google Scholar |
| 1964. Allen, Caroline K.. An Appreciation-Clarence Emmeren Kobuski (1900-1963). Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (4): 331-334. | Google Scholar |
| 1964. Allen, C.K.. Lauraceae. (): . | Google Scholar |
| 1965. Allen, Caroline K.. Review: Bibliographia Lauracearum by A. J. G. H. Kostermans. Taxon (1): 22-23. | Google Scholar |
| 1965. Allen, Caroline K., David J. Rogers and Lorin I. Nevling. Robert Everard Woodson, Jr. (1904-1963). Brittonia (1): 1-11. | Google Scholar |
| 1965. Allen, C.K.. Trinidad, 1965-1966, [numbers 200-228, 331-353]. Brazil, 1966, [numbers 300-329].. (): . | Google Scholar |
| 1967. STEYERMARK, JULIAN A., FRANCIS DROUET, MARGARET FULFORD, HAROLD ROBINSON, DAVID D. LELLINGER, CONRAD V. MORTON, NETTA GRAY, JASON SWALLEN, H. A. MOORE, GUNNAR HARLING, GEORGE BUNTING, LYMAN B. SMITH, HAROLD N. MOLDENKE, BASSETT MAGUIRE, CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH, JOSE CUATRECASAS, RICHARD HOWARD, CAROLINE K. ALLEN, LUCIANO BERNARDI, HOWARD IRWIN, GABRIEL EDWIN, EUGENE JABLONSKI, C. EARLE SMITH, A. C. DE ROON, ROGERS MC VAUGH, JOHN WURDACK, H. SLEUMER, GETULIO AGOSTINI, PETER TAYLOR, N. Y. SANDWITH and LEANDRO ARISTEGUIETA. FLORA DEL AUYAN-TEPUI. Acta Botánica Venezuélica (5/8): 5-370. | Google Scholar |
| 1994. Howard, Richard A.. Caroline Kathryn Allen (1904-1975): A Remembrance Long Overdue. Taxon (3): 501-504. | Google Scholar |