Lewis Edgar Wehmeyer

After graduating in 1914 from Quincy High School,{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bf_hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23| page=23 |title=Classroom Profile |journal=The Michigan Alumnus | date=October 9, 1948 | volume=55|issue=2|publisher=Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. }} Lewis E. Wehmeyer matriculated in 1916 at the University of Michigan.{{cite web|author=Jones, K. L.|title=Lewis Edgar Wehmeyer 1897 - 1971|website=Faculty History Project, University of Michigan|url=http://faculty-history.dc.umich.edu/faculty/lewis-edgar-wehmeyer/memorial}} His academic education was delayed by a year spent in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during WW I. At the University of Michigan he graduated with a B.S. in forestry in 1921 and then matriculated in the department of botany. He held the Emmac J. Cole Fellowship for three years and graduated in 1925 with a Ph.D. His thesis Biologic and phylogenetic study of the stromatic Sphaeriales was supervised by Calvin Henry Kauffman (1869–1931){{cite journal|author=Wehmeyer, Lewis E.|title=Biologic and phylogenetic study of the stromatic Sphaeriales|journal=American Journal of Botany|volume=13|issue=10|pages=575–645|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8zzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA575|year=1926|doi=10.1002/j.1537-2197.1926.tb05903.x |oclc=7217896}} As a postdoc Wehmeyer held a National Research Council Fellowship at Harvard University for three years. As a postdoc he collected fungi in Nova Scotia and in September 1927 in Truro, Nova Scotia married Florence Elaine Prince (called Elaine Prince). She was born in Truro on 22 March 1903.{{cite book|chapter=Certificate Number 1917. Florence Elaine Prince, 22 March 1903|title=Registration of Birth Under the Vital Statistic Act 1919|location=Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada}}

At the University of Michigan, Wehmeyer was an instructor from 1928 to 1931, an assistant professor from 1931 to 1937, an associate professor from 1937 to 1947, and a full professor from 1947{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea9CC4lCicQC&pg=PA2648| page=2648 | title=American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory | year=1949 | publisher=Bowker }} to 1968, when he retired as professor emeritus. He collected many specimens of Pleospora in Wyoming. He was a consultant for mycological specialists in Argentina, Sweden, England, and Canada. His most important work is perhaps his 4th book A world monograph of the genus Pleospora and its segregates, based upon his collection of about 1,200 specimens, of which about 400 are type specimens.

He was elected in 1931 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{cite web|title=Historic Fellows|website=American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic}}

In 1981, a bequest was made in the name of Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer (1903-1979){{cite book|chapter=Elaine P. Wehmeyer, Certificate Number 70810|title=Michigan Death Index, 1971–1996}} for an endowment of a professorial chair in mycology at the University of Michigan.{{cite web|date=December 21, 2015|title=James appointed as Wehmeyer Chair in the Taxonomy of Fungi|website=News and Events, LSA (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan|url=https://lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-events/all-news/archived-news/2015/12/james-appointed-as-wehmeyer-chair-in-the-taxonomy-of-fungi.html}} The genus Wehmeyera is named in his honor.[http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=25349 Wehmeyera] at Index Fungorum

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• {{cite journal|author=Wehmeyer, Lewis E.|year=1923|title=The imperfect stage of some higher Pyrenomycetes obtained in culture|journal=Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters (1923 Meeting)|volume=3|pages=245–266|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92McAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245}}
• {{cite journal|author-mask=2|jstor=2435473|title=A Biologic and Phylogenetic Study of the Stromatic Sphaeriales |last1=Wehmeyer |first1=Lewis E. |journal=American Journal of Botany |year=1926 |volume=13 |issue=10 |pages=575–645 |doi=10.1002/j.1537-2197.1926.tb05903.x }}
• {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Wehmeyer, L. E.|title=The British species of the genus Diaporthe Nits. and its segregates|journal=Trans Br Mycol Soc|volume=17|issue=4|year=1933|pages=237–295|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(33)80010-6 |url=http://www.ascofrance.fr/uploads/forum_file/1932-v17-237-0001-0001.pdf}}
• {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1080/00275514.1946.12024060|title=Studies on Some Fungi from Northwestern Wyoming. II. Fungi Imperfecti |year=1946 |last1=Wehmeyer |first1=Lewis E. |journal=Mycologia |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=306–330 }}
• {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1080/00275514.1947.12017628|title=Studies on Some Fungi from Northwestern Wyoming. IV. Miscellaneous |year=1947 |last1=Wehmeyer |first1=Lewis E. |journal=Mycologia |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=463–478 }}
• {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1086/335829|title=Perithecial Development in Pleospora trichostoma |year=1954 |last1=Wehmeyer |first1=Lewis E. |journal=Botanical Gazette |volume=115 |issue=4 |pages=297–310 |s2cid=86793733 }}
• {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1080/00275514.1963.12018026|title=Some Himalayan Ascomycetes of the Punjab and Kashmir |year=1963 |last1=Wehmeyer |first1=L. E. |journal=Mycologia |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=309–336 }}
• {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1080/00275514.1964.12018080|title=Some Fungi Imperfecti of the Punjab and Kashmir |year=1964 |last1=Wehmeyer |first1=Lewis E. |journal=Mycologia |volume=56 |pages=29–52 }}

• {{cite book|author=Wehmeyer, Lewis E.|title=The genus Diaporthe Nitschke and its segregates|location=Ann Arbor|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1933|series=University of Michigan studies. Scientific series. Vol. IX|lccn=34003518|oclc=10373481}}
• {{cite book|title=2021 reprint|isbn=1013966910}}
• {{cite book|author-mask=2|author=Wehmeyer, Lewis E.|title=A revision of Melanconis, Pseudovalsa, Prosthecium, and Titania|location=Ann Arbor|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1941|series=University of Michigan studies. Scientific series, vol. XIV|lccn=41052932|oclc=4736127}}
• {{cite book|title=A revision of Melanconis, Pseudovalsa, Prosthecium, and Titania|location=Lehre, Germany|publisher=J. Cramer|year=1973|lccn=74181761|postscript=; Reprint of the 1941 edition published by the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor|series=Bibliotheca Mycologica, Band 41}}
• {{cite book|author-mask=2|title=The fungi of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island|location=Ottawa|publisher=National Research Council of Canada|year=1950|lccn=58048188|doi=10.4224/21273347|last1=Wehmeyer |first1=Lewis E. }}{{cite journal|author=Smith, Alexander H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID7iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA274| title=Review of The Fungi of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island by Lewis E. Wehmeyer|journal=Michigan Alumnus: A Journal of University Perspectives. Quarterly Review | year=1950 | publisher=Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. }}
• {{cite book|author-mask=2|author=Wehmeyer, Lewis E.|title=A world monograph of the genus Pleospora and its segregates|location=Ann Arbor|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1961|lccn=61063564|url=https://archive.org/details/worldmonographof0000wehm/page/n5/mode/2up}}
• {{cite book|title=2013 reprint|isbn=978-1258680824 }}
• {{cite book|author-mask=2|author=Wehmeyer, Lewis E.|title=The Pyrenomycetous fungi|postscript=; edited by Richard T. Hanlin from posthumous papers of Lewis E. Wehmeyer.|location=Lehre, Germany|publisher=J. Cramer for the New York Botanical Garden, in collaboration with the Mycological Society of America|year=1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEhFAQAAIAAJ| isbn=9783768209670}} (Pyrenomycete is a synonym for sordariomycete, defined as any fungus belonging to the class Sordariomycetes.)

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