Citizenship American Fields Botany Name Benjamin Robinson | Author abbrev. (botany) Institutions Gray Herbarium | |
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Born November 8, 1864
Bloomington, Illinois ( 1864-11-08 ) Alma mater Harvard University University of Strasbourg Died July 27, 1935, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, United States Institution Harvard University Herbaria | ||
Doctoral advisor Hermann zu Solms-Laubach | ||
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (November 8, 1864 – July 27, 1935) was an American botanist.
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Biography
Robinson was born on November 8, 1864 in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1887, he received an A.B. from Harvard. He married Margaret Louise Casson on June 29, 1887 and couple traveled to Europe. He studied plant anatomy with H. Solms-Laubach and completed his Dr.phil. at University of Strasbourg in 1889. They returned to the United States in the fall of 1890. Most of his career was Gray Herbarium curator and he died at his summer home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire on July 27, 1935.
Career
In 1891, Robinson became an assistant to Sereno Watson, the curator of Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. Upon Watson's death in 1892, Robinson was appointed to the curator position. In 1899, Robinson became first Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany. He was the editor of the New England Botanical Club's journal Rhodora from 1899-1928. While at the Gray Herbarium, he began a long association with fellow botanist Jesse More Greenman.