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BAILEY HORTORIUM

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This gaggle includes all faculty, staff and students who have been part of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University.

TOTAL BIOS IN THIS TOPIC: 26

1889 - 1983

Ethel Bailey
Ethel Zoe Bailey, daughter of L.H. Bailey, was the first curator at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, from 1935 until her retirement in 1957.
1858 - 1954

Liberty Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey was a highly prolific horticulturalist, taxonomist, and educator who established the first horticultural department in the U.S. at Michigan Agricultural College in 1883. He established and became the first dean of the State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, in 1904.
1934 - 2019

David Bates
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.
1916 - 1990

Adelaide Briggs
Adelaide Elizabeth Briggs ("Miss Briggs") was an American herbarium curator and artist who served as Assistant Curator at the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH), Cornell University, from 1947-1980.
1914 - 2005

Robert Clark
Robert B. Clark was an American landscape architect and taxonomist of cultivated plants. He served as curator of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium, Cornell University (BH) from 1962-1964, and as a landscape architect his most lasting contribution (1963) may be the design of the arboretum in Holmdel Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

1911 - 1981

Robert Clausen
Robert T. Clausen was an American plant taxonomist, educator, and herbarium curator at Cornell University (BH), who specialized in the Crassulaceae.
1918 - 2011

William Dress
William Dress was an American horticultural taxonomist who spent his career as a faculty member at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, and authored a large number of the entries in Hortus Third.
1925 - 2012

David Fairbrothers
David Fairbrothers was an American plant systematist, educator and conservationist who earned his Ph.D from Cornell University and was a pioneer in chemotaxonomy.
1921 - 2008

Peter Hyypio
Peter Hyypio was an American botanist, caricologist, and curator at the Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University.
1924 - 2014

John Ingram
John Ingram was an American plant taxonomist who worked on Euphorbiaceae, Ericaceae and horticultural plants. He contributed greatly to Hortus Third while a faculty member in the L.H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University

1925 - 2005

Bente King
Bente Starcke King was a Danish American botanical illustrator and staff member of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University.
1925 - 2016

Richard P. Korf
Richard Korf was a world-renowned American mycologist and taxonomist on the faculty of Cornell University. His area of greatest expertise was in the Discomycetes, and he was co-founder of the journal Mycotaxon.
1910 - 1978

George Lawrence
George H.M. Lawrence was an American botanist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and became the founding director of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University.
1917 - 1980

Harold Emery Jr. Moore
Hal Moore was an American plant taxonomist and professor at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. He specialized on palms and gesneriads, as well as the flora of Hidalgo, Mexico.
1916 - 2010

Reid Moran
Reid Moran was an American botanist who became the curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum, and a world authority on the succulent family Crassulaceae. Moran also collected extensively on Guadalupe Island and Cedros Island off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

1933 - 2016

Dan Nicolson
Dan H. Nicolson was an American plant taxonomist, floristician, and monographer of the family Araceae. He earned his doctorate at Cornell University and worked primarily for the Smithsonian Institution, collecting in many areas of the world.
1941 - 2015

James Reveal
Jim Reveal was an American botanist and taxonomist of Polygonaceae, and a historian of early North American plant exploration.
1947 - 1996

David Rindos
David Rindos was a Cornell educated social scientist, botanist and anthropologist whose book, The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective was an important contribution to the field of agricultural history. Rindos was denied tenure and dismissed from the University of Western Australia in 1993, when he reported to the administration instances of favoritism and sexual impropriety among the UWA faculty.
1923 - 1998

Marion Ruff
Marion Ruff Sheehan was an American botanical illustrator at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, and spouse of the orchidologist Thomas Sheehan.
- 1997
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Margaret Stone
Margaret Stone was an American botanist and curator of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH) at Cornell University from 1977-1979.

1930 - 1992

Luella Sullivan
Luella Sulllivan held various posts at the Bailey Hortorium over the course of 43 years, beginning in the early days at Sage Place, typing and organizing the manuscript of Hortus Third, managing the front office when the Hortorium moved to Mann Library at Cornell, and eventually managing the Hortorium Library until her death in 1992.
1920 - 2015

Robert Thorne
Robert Thorne was an internationally renowned American botanist who earned his doctorate at Cornell University and devised the "Thorne System" of plant classification. He added over 60,000 specimens to the herbarium of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden where he was curator for nearly 30 years.
1919 - 2017

Natalie Uhl
Natalie Whitford Uhl was an American botanist, palm systematist, and professor at Cornell University.
1954 - 2020

Sherry Vance
Sherry Vance was a staff member in the L.H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH), at Cornell University. Sherry became the Curator of the Ethel Zoe Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection, and also worked in various aspects of herbarium curation, record keeping, and management.
1950 - 1985

Michael Whalen
Michael Whalen was an American plant taxonomist and chemotaxonomist who specialized in neotropical Solanum (Solanaceae). He was a professor at the Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University.

1920 - 2003
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Antoinette Wilkinson
Antoinette Miele Wilkinson was an Italian-American research editor, plant collector, and educator, and a Research Associate at Cornell University who published a series of papers on floral anatomy.