John Merle Coulter / / Andrew Denny Rodgers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Rodgers, Andrew Denny,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1944
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2243
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

John Merle Coulter contributed tremendously to the rapid advance of botany in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An exploring mind, deeply religious spirit, and scientist's respect for truth, combined with singular personal charm, made of him not only a missionary in science, but a natural leader among the botanists of the United States. He set for his goal the building of a complete structure of the house of botany, and he took the lead in organizing defined branches of study which eliminated the waste of duplicated effort. The thread of this story of his life is maintained largely through excerpts of the correspondence of Coulter and his associates and by means of articles from the Botanical Gazette, which he founded.Originally published in 1944.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING YEARS AT HANOVER -- CHAPTER II. WESTERN EXPLORATIONS -- CHAPTER III. THE INDIANA FLORA -- CHAPTER IV. THE YEARS AT WABASH COLLEGE -- CHAPTER V. THE YEARS AT WABASH (CONTINUED) THE TAXONOMIC STUDIES -- CHAPTER VI. PRESIDENT OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY -- CHAPTER VII. PRESIDENT OF LAKE FOREST COLLEGE -- CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST YEARS AT CHICAGO -- CHAPTER IX. LEADERSHIP IN WORLD BOTANY -- CHAPTER X. PURE AND PRACTICAL SCIENCE -- CHAPTER XI. THE ALL-INCLUSIVE SCIENCE -- CHAPTER XII. THE BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH THE ERA OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH FULLY INAUGURATED -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX