Reed C. Rollins Explained

Reed Clark Rollins
Birth Date:	7 December 1911
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Botanist, Professor
Alma Mater:	University of Wyoming Harvard University^[1]

Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 191128 April 1998) was an American botanist, professor at Harvard University and one of the founders of both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy^[2] and the Organization for Tropical Studies.^[3] He was also the second president of each of them.^{[2] [4]}

Sources

• Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. "Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 1911 – 28 April 1998)" Taxon 48(2): pp. 225–56
• Campbell, Christopher S. and Greene, Craig W. (1988) "A Tribute to Reed Clark Rollins, Recipient of the 1987 Asa Gray Award" Systematic Botany 13(1): pp. 170–171

References

Botanist designation

External links

• Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. (1999) "Reed Clark Rollins", Biographical Memoir at National Academy Press

Notes and References

1. Web site: We've moved.
2. Cowan, R. S. and Stafleu, F. A. (1982) "The origin and early history of IAPT" Taxon 31(3): pp. 415–420
3. http://www.ots.ac.cr/images/downloads/aboutots/article-cal-acad-sc-ots-success-stone-1998.pdf Stone, Donald E. (1988) "The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS): A Success Story in Graduate Training and Research" in Almeda, Frank and Pringle, Catherine M. (1988) Tropical Rainforests: Diversity and Conservation California Academy of Sciences and Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, California, pp. 143–187, p. 152
4. http://www.ots.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=258 "Organization for Tropical Studies - The Rogues Gallery of Presidents"