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David Martin Bates

(31 Mar) 1934 - 2019 (11 Dec)




CORNELL AFFILIATION:
Professor, L.H. Bailey Hortorium; Director, L.H. Bailey Hortorium



David M. Bates was a plant systematist, economic botanist and conservationist, and a professor and director of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University. Bates had an undergraduate degree from Cornell and received a Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Post doctoral work was completed at the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Bates then joined the faculty at Cornell, where he remained for the entirety of his academic career. Bates was expert in the systematics of the Malvales and also studied the Cucurbitaceae and the palms. While he was Director of the Bailey Hortorium, Bates led colleagues and staff to complete the authoritative Hortus Third, the last iteration of a monumental dictionary of cultivated plants, begun by L.H. Bailey, and still in wide use today. Bates' interest in conservation developed later in his career and focused on two international development projects, one in the Dominican Republic and the other in the Philippines. He taught Ethnobotany, Biosystematics and Evolution of Crop Plants, the Healing Forest, and Traditional Agriculture in Developing Countries and was mentor to over 40 graduate students.

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1967. Bates, David M.. A reconsideration of Sidopsis Rydberg and notes on Malvastrum A. Gray (Malvaceae). Rhodora (777): .Google Scholar
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1969. Bates, D.M.. Systematics of the South African genus Anisodontea Presl (Malvaceae). (): .Google Scholar
1970. Bates, David M. and Orland J. Blanchard Jr. CHROMOSOME NUMBERS IN THE MALVALES. II. NEW OR OTHERWISE NOTEWORTHY COUNTS RELEVANT TO CLASSIFICATION IN THE MALVACEAE, TRIBE MALVEAE. American Journal of Botany (8): .Google Scholar
1970. Bates, David M. and Orland J. Blanchard. Chromosome Numbers in the Malvales. II. New or Otherwise Noteworthy Counts Relevant to Classification in the Malvaceae, Tribe Malveae. American Journal of Botany (8): 927-934.Google Scholar


1974. Bates, David M.. Fryxellia, a New Genus of North American Malvaceae. Brittonia (1): 95-100.Google Scholar
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1982. Bates, D.M.. Robert Theodore Clausen, Dec. 26, 1911-Dec. 31, 1981 [Professor Emeritus of Biology at Cornell University, botanist, plant taxonomist, New York]. (4): .Google Scholar
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1987. Bates, David M.. The Robert and Catherine Wilson Botanical Garden at Las Cruces, Costa Rica. Botanic Gardens Conservation News (1): 22-28.Google Scholar
1988. Bates, David M.. Utilization Pools: A Framework for Comparing and Evaluating the Economic Importance of Palms. Advances in Economic Botany (): .Google Scholar
1989. Bates, David M., Laurence J. Dorr and Orland J. Blanchard. Chromosome Numbers in Callirhoe (Malvaceae). Brittonia (2): 143-151.Google Scholar
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1991. Bates, David M.. Society for Economic Botany: Report of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, June 10-13, 1990. Economic Botany (1): .Google Scholar
1997. Bates, DM , GJ Anderson and RD Lee. Forensic Botany: Trichome Evidence. Journal of Forensic Sciences (3): 380-386.Google Scholar
2019. Bates, D.M., R.W. Robinson and C. Jeffrey. Biology and Utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. (): .Google Scholar