Oliver Atkins Farwell
{{short description|American botanist (1867-1944)}}
Oliver Atkins Farwell (13 December 1867, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts – 18 September 1944, Lake Linden, Michigan) was a herbarium curator, botanist, and drug inspector.{{cite book|chapter=Farwell, Oliver Atkins|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nW1bTkMF2UMC&pg=PA813|page=813|title = Men of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries|location=New York City|publisher=L. R. Hamersly & Co|editor = Leonard, John William|year = 1908}}
As a boy he moved with his family to Michigan, where he was educated at public schools and the Michigan State Normal School. He taught in 1889 and 1890 at Michigan state secondary schools and from 1890 to 1892 at Michigan State Normal School. In 1892 Farwell became a herbarium curator and drug inspector for Parke, Davis and Company and retired there in 1933.{{cite journal|title=Dr. Oliver Atkins Farwell|journal=Science|date=27 October 1944|volume=100|issue=2600|pages=379–80|doi=10.1126/science.100.2600.379-a|pmid=17740315}} Rogers McVaugh, Stanley A. Cain, and Dale J. Hagenah (1908–1971) wrote a 101-page account of Farwell's life and work.{{cite book|author=Edens, Janice L.|editor1=George A. Cevasco|editor2=Richard P. Harmond|title=Modern American Environmentalists: A Biographical Encyclopedia|chapter=Cain Stanley Adair|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTSIPaCr2DYC&pg=PA72|date=15 June 2009|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-9524-1|page=72}}
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Selected publications
- {{cite journal|jstor=2479765|title=Notes on the Michigan Species of Polygonatum|journal=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club|volume=42|issue=5|pages=247–258|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|year=1915|doi=10.2307/2479765}}
- {{cite journal|author=Farwell, Oliver Atkins|title=Contributions to the Botany of Michigan No. 14. Michigan Novelties|journal=Report of the Michigan Academy of Science|volume=17|year=1916|pages=167–182|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hmXlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167}}
- {{cite journal|jstor=1544790|title=Notes on Hippochaete|journal=American Fern Journal|volume=7|issue=3|pages=73–76|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|year=1917|doi=10.2307/1544790|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229996}}
- {{cite journal|author=Farwell, Oliver Atkins|title=Sisyrinchium Bermudiana|journal=Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club|volume=17|year=1918|pages=82–83|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3BBKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA82}}
- {{cite journal|jstor=23298343|title=Bromelica (Thurber): A New Genus of Grasses|journal=Rhodora|volume=21|issue=244|pages=76–78|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|year=1919}}
- {{cite journal|jstor=23297530|title=Necessary Changes in Botanical Nomenclature|journal=Rhodora|volume=21|issue=245|pages=101–103|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|year=1919}}
- {{cite journal|jstor=2992922|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|title=Botanical Gleanings in Michigan. III|journal=The American Midland Naturalist|volume=10|issue=1|pages=19–46|year=1926|doi=10.2307/2992922}}
- {{cite journal|jstor=2993139|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|title=Botanical Gleanings in Michigan V|journal=The American Midland Naturalist|volume=11|issue=2|pages=41–71|year=1928|doi=10.2307/2993139}}
- {{cite journal|jstor=2993140|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|title=Contributions to the Botany of Michigan, No. 15. Miscellaneous Notes|journal=The American Midland Naturalist|volume=11|issue=2|pages=72–85|year=1928|doi=10.2307/2993140}} 1928
- {{cite journal|jstor=2419908|doi=10.2307/2419908|title=Botanical Gleanings in Michigan, VI|journal=American Midland Naturalist|volume=12|issue=4|pages=113–134|year=1930|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/2420088|jstor=2420088|title=Fern Notes II. Ferns in the Herbarium of Parke, Davis & co|journal=American Midland Naturalist|volume=12|issue=8|pages=233–311|year=1931|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins}}
- {{cite journal|jstor=23300603|title=Concerning Some Species of Cornus of Philip Miller|journal=Rhodora|volume=33|issue=387|pages=68–72|last1=Farwell|first1=Oliver Atkins|year=1931}}
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