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Index of Botanists

Name	Chase, Virginius Heber
Date of birth	1876
Date of death	1966
Remarks	"Although lacking even a high school education, Virginius Chase trained himself in botany, and became widely known for his contributions to the natural history of plants. The late Dr. Agnes Chase, Agrostologist of the Smithsonian Instinuion, was his aunt, and was influential in guiding his early attempts to identify plants. His collections numbering some 15,000 sheets covered areas from the mid-western United States, the South Dakota Badlands and Black Hills, Yellowstone Park, what is now Craters of the Moon National Monument, and into Nuevo Leon, Mexico ... held an honorary M.A. degree (1949) from Kenyon College, and an honorary D.Sc. (1950) by Bradley University" (wide web info). [collector note: Unites States 1898-1947: DS, F, GH, IA (140), ILL, L, LUNDELL, MIN, MO, NY, NYS, US; Mexico (1939): F (698), MO, NY, US (169)]
URL	http://www.botany.org/plantsciencebulletin/psb-1966-12-3.php
ASA Botanist ID	125456 botanist
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/6f2649a1-9a46-4b1c-884e-1823fa7afebf
Standard/Label Name	V. H. Chase
Full Name	Chase, Virginius Heber
Geography Collector	Mexico, United States of America
Specialty Collector	Phanerogams
Citation as Collector	Index Herbariorum - Collectors A-D
Citation as Collector	Email message on the death date & web reference from Linda L. Rader (NEB)
Holdings	Search for specimens collected by V. H. Chase
Collections in	1895 (2), 1896 (4), 1897 (6), 1898 (15), 1899 (10), 1900 (8), 1902 (14), 1903 (2), 1905 (1), 1906 (5), 1907 (2), 1908 (2), 1922 (1), 1936 (1), 1939 (38), 1945 (2), 1946 (1), 1951 (1)