Andrew Denny Rodgers, III explained

Andrew Denny Rodgers, III (January 19, 1900 – January 7, 1981), was a lawyer and botanist who was born and died in Ohio.

He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1922, and obtained an LL.B. degree from Ohio State University in 1925.^[1] He practiced law from 1926 to 1933, then undertook graduate study at Northwestern University from 1933 to 1935, and became a member of scientific organizations.^[1] He published articles in plant science and other journals.^[2] He became a serious student of the history of North American botany (and related fields), primarily of the later nineteenth century. In 1940 he published his first book, Noble Fellow. Noble Fellow was an extensive treatise on Rodgers' great-grandfather, bryologist William Starling Sullivant; it dealt with Sullivant's heritage and then followed with a thorough discourse on his life and times. In subsequent years he wrote and published six more books on North American botanical topics (see Books). His books received high praise from botanical professionals who reviewed them. Some examples:

Books

• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (1940, facsimile reprint 1968). Noble Fellow, William Starling Sullivant. New York: Hafner.
• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (1942, facsimile reprint 1965). John Torrey, A Story of North American Botany. New York: Hafner.
• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (1944). John Merle Coulter, Missionary in Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (1944, facsimile reprint 1968). American Botany, 1873-1892. New York: Hafner.
• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (1949, facsimile reprint 1965). Liberty Hyde Bailey, A Story of American Plant Sciences. New York: Hafner.
• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (1951, reprint 1991). Bernhard Eduard Fernow, A Story of North American Forestry. Durham, NC: Forest History Society.
• Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (1952). Erwin Frink Smith, A Story of North American Plant Pathology (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28277#page/11/mode/1up). Philadelphia: Amer. Philosophical Society. Retrieved Apr. 15, 2019.

References

1. News: Obituary . Columbus Dispatch . January 13, 1981.
2. News: Memorial . Columbus Dispatch . January 14, 1981.