Wilfred Borden Schofield Explained

Wilfred "Wilf" Borden Schofield (Botanist) (19 July 1927, Brooklyn Corner, Kings County, Nova Scotia – 5 November 2008) was a Canadian botanist, specializing in mosses and liverworts. He was considered by many "the foremost bryologist in Canada".[1]

Biography

Wilfred B. Schofield, who had two brothers and a sister,[2] grew up in Nova Scotia.[3] He received in 1950 a B.A. from Acadia University, where he was influenced by E. Chalmers Smith (1912–1992) and John S. Erskine (1900–1981).[1] [4] [5] In 1951 Schofield obtained a Class A teacher's license from Nova Scotia Normal College. From 1951 to 1954 he was a high school geology teacher in Nova Scotia. He became in 1954 a graduate student at Stanford University,[6] where he met Margaret "Peggy" Irene Bledsoe (1931–2005). In 1956 they both received their M.A.s (he in botany and she in music) and married in the autumn of that year.[7] After their honeymoon, the newlyweds moved to Nova Scotia, where Wilfred Schofield spent the winter teaching high school. The couple spent the summer of 1957 doing field work in the Yukon and then in the autumn moved to North Carolina.

From 1967 to 1969 he was the president of the Sullivant Moss Society, which was renamed in 1970 the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. For his textbook Introduction to Bryology (Macmillan, 1985), the Canadian Botanical Association awarded him the George Lawson Medal for 1986.[7] In 1990 he was awarded an honorary D.Sc. by Acadia University.[8]

He collected plants not only in Canada and the mainland USA, but also in Australia, New Zealand,[9] Hawaii, Japan, and Taiwan.[7] He did most of his field work in British Columbia, especially Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands). In the last 15 years of his life, he spent summers collecting in the Aleutian Islands.[1]

Schofield was predeceased by his wife.[10] Upon his death he was survived by three daughters, and four grandchildren.[11]

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References

  1. Wilfred Borden Schofield (1927–2008). Belland, René. 404. February 25, 2009. Botanical Electronic News.
  2. Web site: Obituary. Eric Schofield. 2008. Serenity Funeral Home, Cambridge Station, Kings County, Nova Scotia.
  3. Web site: Wilf Schofield (1927–2008). Botany Department, University of British Columbia (botany.ubc.ca).
  4. Web site: Smith, Ernest Chalmers. JSTOR Global Plants.
  5. Web site: Little Known County Historians. Coleman, Ed. 16 January 2017.
  6. 20485801. Wilfred Borden Schofield (1927-2008). Harpel. Judith A.. The Bryologist. 2009. 112. 2. 257–267. 10.1639/0007-2745-112.2.257. 131016793.
  7. Belland, René J.. Crum, Howard. A tribute to W. B. Schofield on his 70th birthday. J. Hattori Bot. Lab.. 82. 1–14. July 1997.
    with contribution by Dale H. Vitt
    .
  8. Web site: Honorary Degrees. Acadia University.
  9. Web site: Schofield, Wilfred Borden. JSTOR Global Plants.
  10. Web site: Class Notes. In Memoriam. Summer 2005. 67. 4. Rochester Review. University of Rochester.
  11. News: Obituary. Dr. Wilfred Borden Schofield. Vancouver Sun. November 14, 2008.
  12. Web site: Schofieldia. The Plant List.
  13. Web site: Schofieldiellia. The Plant List.
  14. Web site: Andreaea schofieldiana. The Plant List.
  15. Web site: Chaetomitrium schofieldii. The Plant List.
  16. Web site: Ctenidium schofieldii. The Plant List.
  17. Web site: Cladonia schofieldii. Plants Database, USDA.
  18. Web site: Plagiochila schofieldiana. The Plant List.
  19. Web site: Sphagnum wilfii. The Plant List.
  20. Plagiothecium schofieldii, a new species from the Aleutian Islands (Alaska, USA). PhytoKeys. 2021 . 10.3897/phytokeys.184.69970 . free . Wolski . Grzegorz J. . Nowicka-Krawczyk . Paulina . Buck . William R. . 184 . 127–138 . 34785976 . 8589775 .

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