Sereno Watson
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Sereno Watson Template:Post-nominals (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an American botanist.
Life
Watson was born on December 1, 1826, in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut.
Graduating from Yale in 1847 in biology, he drifted through various occupations until, in California, he joined the Clarence King Expedition and eventually became its expedition botanist.
Appointed by Asa Gray as assistant in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University in 1873, he later became its curator, a position he maintained until his death.[1] Watson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874,[2] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1889.[3]
He died on March 9, 1892, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
<templatestyles src="Botanist/styles.css"/>The standard author abbreviation S.Watson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
Works
- Botany, in Report of the geological exploration of the 40th parallel made ... by Clarence King, 1871
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- Publications by and about S. Watson on WorldCat
References
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External links
- Biographical sketch at the Gray Herbarium site
- Biographical memoir, National Academy of Sciences
- Obituary, page 441
- Portrait (plate VI) and obituary by John Merle Coulter (137–141)
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- American taxonomists
- 1826 births
- 1892 deaths
- Taxa named by Sereno Watson
- Botanists active in California
- Botanists active in North America
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Harvard University staff
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- People from South Windsor, Connecticut
- Yale University alumni
- 19th-century American botanists