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Brandes, Elmer Walker |
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( Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II) |
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Born: 1891, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. |
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Plant pathologist, educated at Michigan State College (B.S. 1913, M.S. 1915); student at Cornell University (1916-17), and Ph.D. University of Michigan (1919). Up to 1959 he made an impressive career in sugar-plant investigations, mainly of the Dept of Agriculture in Washington. Many were the honours bestowed on him. He was sponsored by the said Agricultural Department to collect sugar-cane varieties in Australian New Guinea, together with Jeswiet (see Cycl. Fl. Mal. I, 1, 1950) and Pemberton (See this Suppl.). In total 292 varieties were brought home.1 |
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1928. E. New Guinea: Fly River, Palmer R., Ok-Tedi R., Strickland R., Lake Murray, Port Moresby, Rigo, Sepik R., Lae. |
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Jeswiet brought back many herbarium specimens, but whether the other members did, is not known to me. |
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(1) Cf. Hawaiian Plant. Rec. 55, 1958, p. 213; E.W. Brandes: ‘Into primeval Papua by seaplane’ (Nat. Geogr. Mag. 56, 1929, p. 253-332, ill.); ‘Cane Growers’ Quart. Bull. Brisbane 15, 1951, p. 41-42. |
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Who was who in America 1961-68, vol. 4; Amer. Men of Science, Phys. & Biol. Vol., ed. 10. |
