E. C. Jeffrey

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Edward Charles Jeffrey (May 21, 1866 – April 19, 1952) was a Canadian-American botanist who worked on vascular plant anatomy and phylogeny.

Biography

E. C. Jeffrey was born in St. Catharines, Canada West.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123741605/edward-c-jeffrey/ |title=Edward C. Jeffrey |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=11 |date=1952-04-21 |access-date=2023-04-29 |via=Newspapers.com}} From 1892 to 1902, he was a lecturer at the University of Toronto. While on leave of absence, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1899. In 1902 he became there an assistant professor of vegetable histology.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byFOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA33|title = Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Harvard University, 1636-1905|year = 1905|page=33}} In 1907 he was promoted to a full professorship of plant morphology.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARMFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA358|volume=43|page=358|title = Botanical Gazette|year = 1907}} In 1933 he retired from Harvard University as professor emeritus.

In 1906, Jeffrey was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web |title=Member Directory |date=February 9, 2023 |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/edward-charles-jeffrey |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=2023-04-29}}

Death

E. C. Jeffrey died on April 19, 1952.

Bibliography

{{Cite journal

|author=Edward C. Jeffrey

|title=The history, comparative anatomy and evolution of the Araucarioxylon type

|journal=Daedalus

|volume=48

|year=1912

|pages=529–540 plus 2 plates

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q0DAAAAIAAJ&q=Araucarioxylon&pg=RA1-PA529

}}

{{cite book|author=Edward C. Jeffrey|author-mask=2|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001497875|title=The anatomy of woody plants|year=1917|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|postscript=; x+478 pages}}
{{cite book|author=Edward C. Jeffrey|author-mask=2|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007958879|title=The origin and organization of coal|series=Memoirs of the American academy of arts and sciences, v. 15, no. 1|year=1924}}
{{cite book|author=Edward C. Jeffrey|author-mask=2|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001488855|title=Coal and civilization|year=1925|publisher=The Macmillan company}}

References

Category:1866 births

Category:1952 deaths

Category:20th-century American botanists

Category:20th-century Canadian botanists

Category:Harvard University alumni

Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States