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Gates, Frank Caleb

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1887, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. Died: 1954.

career:

Botanist-ecologist who took his Dr’s degree at Michigan University in 1912. From 1912-15 employed in the Philippines,¹ as Instructor of Botany. From 1916-19 Professor of Biology at Carthage College; in 1919 Asst Professor, in 1922 Associate Professor, and since 1928 Professor of Botany, Kansas State Agric. College Manhattan, Kans. (U.S.A.).

collections:

Many numbers of Gates cited by Merrill in his Enum. Philip. Fl.Pl.; also numbered in the B.S. (cf. Bureau of Science, Manila) series with Otañes. In the years 1912-15 he sent more than 1000 specimens of Philippine plants to the Herb. Manila [PNH] for identification. Herb. Field (= Nat. Hist.) Mus. Chicago [F]: 397 Philip. plants (purch. 1915).

literature:

(1) Author of ‘The pioneer vegetation of Taal Volcano’ (Philip. Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 9, 1914, p. 391-434, pl. 3-9); ‘Swamp vegetation in hot springs areas at Los Baños, Laguna, P.I.’ (Philip. Journ. Sci. l.c. p. 495-516, pl. 11-15); ‘A Sphagnum bog in the tropics’ (Journ. Ecology 3, 1915, p. 24-30, pl. 1); ‘Notes from the tropical strand; Ipomoea pescaprae and Canavalia lineata’ (Torreya 15, 1915, p. 27-28); ‘Notes on Philippine vegetation: The Casuarina association’ (l.c. 16, 1916, p. 91-94, fig. 1-4).

biographical data:

Amer. Men of Sci. 1938; Plant Sc. Bull. 1², Apr. 1955, p. 3.

	Career Collections Literature Biographical data
	Gates, Frank Caleb
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1887, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. Died: 1954.
	career: Botanist-ecologist who took his Dr’s degree at Michigan University in 1912. From 1912-15 employed in the Philippines,¹ as Instructor of Botany. From 1916-19 Professor of Biology at Carthage College; in 1919 Asst Professor, in 1922 Associate Professor, and since 1928 Professor of Botany, Kansas State Agric. College Manhattan, Kans. (U.S.A.).
	collections: Many numbers of Gates cited by Merrill in his Enum. Philip. Fl.Pl.; also numbered in the B.S. (cf. Bureau of Science, Manila) series with Otañes. In the years 1912-15 he sent more than 1000 specimens of Philippine plants to the Herb. Manila [PNH] for identification. Herb. Field (= Nat. Hist.) Mus. Chicago [F]: 397 Philip. plants (purch. 1915).
	literature: (1) Author of ‘The pioneer vegetation of Taal Volcano’ (Philip. Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 9, 1914, p. 391-434, pl. 3-9); ‘Swamp vegetation in hot springs areas at Los Baños, Laguna, P.I.’ (Philip. Journ. Sci. l.c. p. 495-516, pl. 11-15); ‘A Sphagnum bog in the tropics’ (Journ. Ecology 3, 1915, p. 24-30, pl. 1); ‘Notes from the tropical strand; Ipomoea pescaprae and Canavalia lineata’ (Torreya 15, 1915, p. 27-28); ‘Notes on Philippine vegetation: The Casuarina association’ (l.c. 16, 1916, p. 91-94, fig. 1-4).
	biographical data: Amer. Men of Sci. 1938; Plant Sc. Bull. 1², Apr. 1955, p. 3.