Sereno Watson

Sereno Watson
FAAAS, NAS
BornDecember 1, 1826
East Windsor Hill, Connecticut
DiedMarch 9, 1892(1892-03-09) (aged 65)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alma materYale University
OccupationBotanist
Known forGray Herbarium curator
Botanist author abbreviationS.Watson

Sereno Watson FAAAS, NAS (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an American botanist. Watson was born on December 1, 1826, in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut. Graduating from Yale in 1847 in Biology, he drifted through various occupations until, in California, he joined the Clarence King Expedition and eventually became its expedition botanist. Appointed by Asa Gray as assistant in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University in 1873, he later became its curator, a position he maintained until his death.[1] Watson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874,[2] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1889.[3] He died on March 9, 1892, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The standard author abbreviation S.Watson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

  1. ^ Dupree, A. Hunter (1988). Asa Gray, American Botanist, Friend of Darwin. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 352, 388–393, 391–396. ISBN 978-0-801-83741-8.
  2. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  3. ^ "Sereno Watson". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  S.Watson.