Robert Everard Woodson

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Robert Everard Woodson

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date |1904|04|28}}

| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

| death_date ={{death date and age |1963|11|6 |1904|04|28}}

| death_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

| nationality = American

| fields = Botany

| workplaces = Washington University in St. Louis

| alma_mater = Washington University in St. Louis

}}

Robert Everard Woodson Jr. (28 April 1904 – 6 November 1963) was an American botanist.{{cite journal |author1=Caroline K. Allen |author2=David J. Rogers |author3=Lorin I. Nevling, Jr. | date = 30 January 1965 | title = Robert Everard Woodson, Jr. (1904-1963) | journal = Brittonia | volume = 17 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–11 | doi = 10.1007/bf02810488| jstor = 2805386|bibcode=1965Britt..17....1A |s2cid=340788 }} He received a

degree in biology in 1929 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. {{botanist|Woodson|inline=y}}

He gave classes in botany at Washington University, and from 1945 to 1963 he was a regular professor.{{cite book |last1=Stafleu |first1=Frans A. |last2=Cowan |first2=Richard S. |title=Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types |volume=VII: W-Z |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066786#page/506 |access-date=28 August 2015 |edition=2nd |year=1988 |editor-last=Stafleu |editor-first=Frans A. |publisher=Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema |location=Utrecht / Antwerpen |isbn=9031308536 |pages=446–448}} He was also curator of the Missouri Botanical Garden.{{cite web |url=http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/molib/part1.pdf |title=A Guide to the Archives and Manuscripts of the Missouri Botanical Garden |last1=Riley |first1=Martha |date=1995 |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=28 August 2015}}Contradictory dates are given for the time spans Robert Everard Woodson served as curator: Riley 1995 states it was from 1948 to 1955 and from 1958 to 1963; according to Stafleu & Cowan 1988 it was from 1955 to 1956 and from 1959 to 1963 plus a time during which he seems to have been an unofficial / de facto curator, from 1945 to 1955.