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Index of Botanists

NameChase, Virginius Heber
Date of birth1876
Date of death1966
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)]
URLhttp://www.botany.org/plantsciencebulletin/psb-1966-12-3.php
ASA Botanist ID125456 botanist
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/6f2649a1-9a46-4b1c-884e-1823fa7afebf
Standard/Label NameV. H. Chase
Full NameChase, Virginius Heber
Geography CollectorMexico,  United States of America
Specialty CollectorPhanerogams
Citation as CollectorIndex Herbariorum - Collectors A-D
Citation as CollectorEmail message on the death date & web reference from Linda L. Rader (NEB)
HoldingsSearch for specimens collected by V. H. Chase
Collections in1895 (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)

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