| Name | Duggar, Benjamin Minge |
| Date of birth | 1872 |
| Date of death | 1956 |
| Remarks | [collector note: Massachusetts: NEBC; Alabama, Colorado, Missouri, New York;] graduated from Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (B.S., 1891), Alabama Polytechnic Institute (M.S., 1892), Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1894; M.A., 1895), and Cornell Univ. (Ph.D., 1898); professor at Cornell University; in 1927 came to the Univ. of Wisconsin as professor of plant physiology and economic botany, holding this position until his retirement to emeritus status in 1943; Duggar became a research consultant for the Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River, N.Y. (1944), and in this capacity discovered the antibiotic, aureomycin |
| ASA Botanist ID | 121519 botanist |
| GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/29025aa6-420e-4420-897a-de75f7601ac9 |
| Variant name | Duggar, B. M. |
| Standard/Label Name | B. M. Duggar |
| Full Name | Duggar, Benjamin Minge |
| Geography Collector | United States of America |
| Specialty Collector | Spermatophytes |
| Specialty Collector | Fungi |
| Citation as Collector | NEBC card file of collectors |
| Citation as Collector | specimen (NEBC) Isoetes engelmannii A. Braun |
| Citation as Collector | Biographical information from Wisconsin Historical Society. https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS7208 (accessed 2024-10-09) |
| Member of teams/groups | |
| Holdings | Search for specimens collected by B. M. Duggar |
| Collections in | [no date] (5), 1891 (12), 1892 (2), 1893 (5), 1894 (16), 1895 (1), 1896 (6), 1897 (1), 1903 (48), 1905 (1), 1911 (1), 1916 (4) |
| Collector Teams: | E. F. Williams, F. S. Collins; G. E. Osterhout & B. M. Duggar E. F. Williams & B. M. Duggar |
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