Merritt Lyndon Fernald | |
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| Born | October 5, 1873 Orono, Maine |
| Died | September 22, 1950 (aged 76) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Shirley Gale Albion R. Hodgdon |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Fernald |
Merritt Lyndon Fernald (October 5, 1873 – September 22, 1950) was an American botanist. He was a respected scholar of the taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. During his career, Fernald published more than 850 scientific papers and wrote and edited the seventh[1] and eighth editions of Gray's Manual of Botany. Fernald coauthored the book Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America in 1919–1920 with Alfred Kinsey, which was published in 1943.[2]
- ^ Gray, Asa (1908) [1847]. Benjamin Lincoln Robinson and Merritt Lyndon Fernald (ed.). Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (Seventh edition – Illustrated ed.). New York: American Book Company.
- ^ Del Tredici, Peter. "The Other Kinsey Report", Natural History, ISSN 0028-0712, July 1, 2006, Vol. 115, Issue 6.