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An enthusiastic American plant collector and botanist trained at the University of Iowa, J.P. Anderson was a florist by trade in Juneau, Alaska, having opened the first such enterprise in the territory in 1917. In the three years prior to that, he served as horticulturist at the Sitka Experiment Station in the Territory of Alaska. Mt. Anderson, Alaska, was named for him. Anderson was credited with the success of the newly formed Juneau Botanical Club in the 1930s, and donated many specimens to its herbarium. He likewise was generous with organizing many of its collecting trips. In 1959 he published Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada which had originally been issued in fascicles through the University of Iowa beginning in 1943. Anderson's original personal herbarium was destroyed by fire in 1924 and he was forced to begin anew collecting the Alaskan flora. His specimens, other than those given to the Juneau Botanical Club, were deposited with the herbarium at University of Iowa. |
