Delzie Demaree
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Delzie Demaree | |
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 Portrait of Delzie Demaree in 1920. | |
| Born | September 15, 1889 Benham, Indiana, United States |
| Died | July 2, 1987 (aged 97) United States |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany. |
Delzie Demaree (15 September 1889 – 2 July 1987) was an American botanist, and plant collector.[1] His place of death is reported as Bonham, Arkansas [1] or Texas.[2]
Demaree was born in Benham, in south-eastern Indiana. He attended the Central Normal College in Danville before serving as a member of the United States Marine Corps between 1917 and 1919.[3][4] Demaree completed a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in botany in 1920.[4] He started to concentrate on collecting botanical specimens in 1922, while teaching at Hendrix College Arkansas.[3] Delzie completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1932 and continued to teach at various institutions, including Arkansas Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and Tulane University.[3]
Published major works
- Demaree, D. 1932. Plant responses to sawdust. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 51:125-6.
- Demaree, D. 1932. Submerging experiments with Taxodium. Ecology. 12:258-262.
- Demaree, D. 1941. Noteworthy Arkansas plants. I. Proc. Ark. Acad. 1: 17–19.
- Demaree, D. 1943. A catalogue of the vascular plants of Arkansas. Taxodium 1(1):1-88.
- W. Carl Taylor and D. Demaree. 1979. Annotated list of the ferns and fern allies of Arkansas. Rhodora 81 (828) : 503–548.
