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Stevens, Frank Lincoln

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

Born: 1871, Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A.. Died: 1934, ? Urbana, Ill., U.S.A.

career:

Plant pathologist, took his Ph.D. in 1900 at Chicago; subsequently granted a travelling fellowship, spending a year in Europe; upon return appointed Instructor in Biology at North Carolina State College, in the following year Professor of Botany and Vegetable Pathology; in 1912 Dean Coll. Agric. University of Porto Rico; from 1914 onwards Professor at Illinois; from 1930-31 Visiting Professor of Agriculture at Los Baños, College of Agriculture, Luzon, Philippines, arriving at Manila on June 23, 1930.

He made several collecting trips to various tropical countries.

collections:

From Hawaii and the Philippines in Herb. Univ. Michigan [MICH] (pres. c. 1938) (cf. Chron. Bot. 5, 1939, p. 307). He collected mostly Fungi.

biographical data:

Philip. Agric. 19,1930, p. 199-202 + portr.; Amer. Men of Sci. 1933; Science 1934, p. 263, 419-420; Science 80, 1934, p. 263, 419-420; Chron. Bot. 1, 1935, p. 318 + portr.

	Career Collections Biographical data
	Stevens, Frank Lincoln
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1871, Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A.. Died: 1934, ? Urbana, Ill., U.S.A.
	career: Plant pathologist, took his Ph.D. in 1900 at Chicago; subsequently granted a travelling fellowship, spending a year in Europe; upon return appointed Instructor in Biology at North Carolina State College, in the following year Professor of Botany and Vegetable Pathology; in 1912 Dean Coll. Agric. University of Porto Rico; from 1914 onwards Professor at Illinois; from 1930-31 Visiting Professor of Agriculture at Los Baños, College of Agriculture, Luzon, Philippines, arriving at Manila on June 23, 1930. He made several collecting trips to various tropical countries.
	collections: From Hawaii and the Philippines in Herb. Univ. Michigan [MICH] (pres. c. 1938) (cf. Chron. Bot. 5, 1939, p. 307). He collected mostly Fungi.
	biographical data: Philip. Agric. 19,1930, p. 199-202 + portr.; Amer. Men of Sci. 1933; Science 1934, p. 263, 419-420; Science 80, 1934, p. 263, 419-420; Chron. Bot. 1, 1935, p. 318 + portr.