LeRoy Abrams explained

Honorific Prefix:	Professor
LeRoy Abrams
Birth Date:	1 October 1874
Birth Place:	Sheffield, Iowa
Occupation:	Professor, Herbarium Curator
Employer:	Stanford University

LeRoy Abrams (1874–1956) was an American botanist and writer.^{[1] [2]} He was a Professor of Botany at Stanford University. He wrote and illustrated a four-volume Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States, with the final volume published posthumously, after compilation and editing by Roxanna Ferris.

He and his wife had a home overlooking the Santa Clara Valley. Their only child, a daughter, predeceased him.

Bibliography

• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Additions to the Flora of Los Angeles County I . 1902.
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Additions to the Flora of Los Angeles County II . 1903.
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Flora of Los Angeles and Vicinity . 1904 .
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Phytogeography of Trees and Shrubs of Southern California . 1908.
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . The Gymnosperms Growing On the Grounds of Leland Stanford Jr. University . 1913.
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Cypress Trees in Southern California . 1914.
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . The Floral Features of California . 1915.
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States . 1 . . 1923 .
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States . 2 . 1944 .
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States . 3 . 1951 .
• Book: Abrams, LeRoy . 0 . Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States . 4 . 1960 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: LeRoy Abrams. Harvard University Herbaria - Index of Botanists. Harvard University. 22 October 2015.
2. Wilson. Albert. October 1956. Wilson, Albert, 1903– Papers, ca. 1910–1995, Special Collections & University Archives M1397. Journal of the California Horticultural Society. XVII.