Delzie Demaree
Delzie Demaree (15 September 1889 – 2 July 1987) was an American botanist, and plant collector.[1] His place of death is reported as Bonham, Arkansas [1] or Texas.[2]
Delzie Demaree | |
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 Portrait of Delzie Demaree in 1920. | |
| Born | September 15, 1889 Benham, Indiana, United States |
| Died | July 2, 1987 (aged 97) United States |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany. |
Life
Demaree was born in Benham, in south-eastern Indiana. He attended the Central Normal College in Danville before serving as a member of the United States Marine Corps between 1917 and 1919.[3][4] Demaree completed a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in botany in 1920.[4] He started to concentrate on collecting botanical specimens in 1922, while teaching at Hendrix College Arkansas.[3] Delzie completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1932 and continued to teach at various institutions, including Arkansas Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and Tulane University.[3]
Published major works
- Demaree, D. 1932. Plant responses to sawdust. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 51:125-6.
- Demaree, D. 1932. Submerging experiments with Taxodium. Ecology. 12:258-262.
- Demaree, D. 1941. Noteworthy Arkansas plants. I. Proc. Ark. Acad. 1: 17–19.
- Demaree, D. 1943. A catalogue of the vascular plants of Arkansas. Taxodium 1(1):1-88.
- W. Carl Taylor and D. Demaree. 1979. Annotated list of the ferns and fern allies of Arkansas. Rhodora 81 (828) : 503–548.
Legacy
The following plants, have been named in his honour:
Vascular plants
- Carya × demareei E.J.Palmer [5]
- Coreopsis grandiflora f. demareei Sherff
- Draba corrugata var. demareei (Wiggins) C.L.Hitchc., and synonym Draba demareei Wiggins.
- Gaura demareei P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.[6]
- Oenothera demareei (P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch
- Rosa demareei E.J.Palmer,[7] a synonym of Rosa woodsii Lindl.
- Verbena demareei Moldenke,[8] a synonym of Verbena bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida.
Botanical collections
The bulk of Demaree's plant collections (approximately 50,000 specimens) were held by the Southern Methodist University herbarium, out of the over 75,000 collection numbers that he recorded.[3][2] Smaller collections are held in the United States including the University of Arkansas and University of North Carolina herbaria, and overseas including at the National Herbarium of Victoria Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and the Australian National Herbarium.[4][9][10]
References
- Anonymous (1987). "Deaths". Taxon. 36 (4): 802. JSTOR 1221155.
- Tucker, Gary E. (1988). "In Memoriam: Delzie Demaree, 1889-1987" (PDF). Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science. 42: 16–17. S2CID 184873268. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 February 2020.
- Anonymous (1982). "Biographical Sketch". SIDA, Contributions to Botany. 9 (4): 269. JSTOR 23909796.
- Carol Ann McCormick (2007). "Collectors of the UNC Herbarium". The University of North Carolina Herbarium. The University of North Carolina. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- Palmer, Ernest J (1937). "Notes on North American Trees and Shrubs". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 18: 135.
- Raven, Peter H.; Gregory, David P (1972). "A revision of the genus Gaura (Onagraceae)". Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 23 (1): 54.
- Rehder, Alfred (1929). "New species, varieties and combinations from the herbarium and the collections of the Arnold Arboretum". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 10: 36.
- Moldenke, Harold N. (1940). "Verbenaceous Novelties". The American Midland Naturalist. 24 (3): 752. doi:10.2307/2420871. JSTOR 2420871.
- "Welcome to the University of Arkansas Herbarium". Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences. University of Arkansas. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- "The Australasian Virtual Herbarium". The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH). 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.