Willard Webster Eggleston

Willard Webster Eggleston
Born(1863-03-28)March 28, 1863
Pittsfield, Vermont, U.S.
DiedNovember 25, 1935(1935-11-25) (aged 72)
Washington, D.C., U.S
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDartmouth College
Scientific career
InstitutionsUnited States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry

Willard Webster Eggleston (March 28, 1863 in Pittsfield, Vermont – November 25, 1935 in Washington, D.C.) was an American botanist, employed by the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1891 with a Bachelor of Science degree.[1] In his work on the taxonomy of Crataegus, now known to be complicated by apomixis, polyploidy, and hybridization,[2][3] he aimed to simplify, counteracting the proliferation of species names that other botanists had produced.[4]

The standard author abbreviation Eggl. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
  1. ^ Stafleu, F.A.; Cowan, R.S. (1976–1988), "Eggleston, Willard Webster (1863–1935)", Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second Edition, Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema and Holkema; Available online through Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  2. ^ Rickett, H.W. (1936), "Forms of Crataegus pruinosa", Botanical Gazette, 97 (4): 780–793, doi:10.1086/334603, JSTOR 2471527, S2CID 84530031
  3. ^ Dickinson, T.A.; Campbell, C.S. (1991), "Population structure and reproductive ecology in the Maloideae (Rosaceae)", Systematic Botany, 16 (2): 350–362, doi:10.2307/2419285, JSTOR 2419285
  4. ^ Brown, H.B. (1910), "The genus Crataegus, with some theories concerning the origin of its species", Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 37 (5): 251–260, doi:10.2307/2479407, JSTOR 2479407
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Eggl.