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Holway, Edward Willet Dorland (1853-1923)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Edward Willet Dorland
Last name
Holway
Initials
E.W.D.
Life Dates
1853 - 1923
Collecting Dates
1895 - 1908
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
MIN (main), B, BM, BPI, CUP, FH, G, GH, ILL, ISC, K, KSC, L, LA, MASS, MICH, MONT, MSC, NEB, NH, NMW, NY, OS, PENN, PRE, PUR, S, SI, TRTC, UC, US, VT, WRSL, WU
Countries
Brazilian region: BrazilNorth American region: Canada, United StatesTemperate South America: ChileTropical South America: EcuadorCentral American Continent: Guatemala, MexicoCaribbean region: Puerto Rico
Associate(s)
Arthur, Joseph Charles (1850-1942)
Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858-1954)
Butters, Frederick King (1878-1945)
Holway, Mary Ellen (1872-1918) (co-collector, wife)
Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858-1954)
Butters, Frederick King (1878-1945)
Holway, Mary Ellen (1872-1918) (co-collector, wife)
Biography
American banker and mycologist. Edward W.D. Holway was born in Adrian, Michigan, and spent his boyhood years on a farm in northeastern Iowa. His studies in civil engineering were brought to an end by a severe illness, and after his convalescence he became a banker in Decorah, Iowa. He developed an interest in botany and built up an extensive collection and library, specialising in fungi. In 1904, after 35 years in banking, he decided to devote all his time to botanical research and travel. Retiring from the bank, he moved to Minneapolis, where he accepted the position of assistant professor of botany at the University of Minnesota, which he held until his death.
Holway was especially noted for his monographic studies on Mexican fungi and North American Uredineae. While still in banking, he had travelled and collected extensively in the United States and Mexico, primarily fungi but other plant groups as well. After his retirement, he visited Central America and Canada and made two long journeys in South America: the first along the western part of the continent, from Chile to Ecuador, and the second in eastern and southern Brazil. In his fifties he became an enthusiastic mountaineer and made a number of difficult climbing expeditions in the Canadian Rockies, the Caribou Range, and the Selkirks. He was a member of the American and the Canadian Alpine Clubs, the Botanical Society of America, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Society of Sigma Xi.
Sources:
F.K. Butters, 1924, "Edward W.D. Holway", Botanical Gazette, 77(1): 115-116.
Holway was especially noted for his monographic studies on Mexican fungi and North American Uredineae. While still in banking, he had travelled and collected extensively in the United States and Mexico, primarily fungi but other plant groups as well. After his retirement, he visited Central America and Canada and made two long journeys in South America: the first along the western part of the continent, from Chile to Ecuador, and the second in eastern and southern Brazil. In his fifties he became an enthusiastic mountaineer and made a number of difficult climbing expeditions in the Canadian Rockies, the Caribou Range, and the Selkirks. He was a member of the American and the Canadian Alpine Clubs, the Botanical Society of America, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Society of Sigma Xi.
Sources:
F.K. Butters, 1924, "Edward W.D. Holway", Botanical Gazette, 77(1): 115-116.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 280; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 54; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 32; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 42; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 28; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 42; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 283, 284; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 130;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Edward Willet Dorland
Last name
Holway
Initials
E.W.D.
Life Dates
1853 - 1923
Collecting Dates
1895 - 1908
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
MIN (main), B, BM, BPI, CUP, FH, G, GH, ILL, ISC, K, KSC, L, LA, MASS, MICH, MONT, MSC, NEB, NH, NMW, NY, OS, PENN, PRE, PUR, S, SI, TRTC, UC, US, VT, WRSL, WU
Countries
Brazilian region: BrazilNorth American region: Canada, United StatesTemperate South America: ChileTropical South America: EcuadorCentral American Continent: Guatemala, MexicoCaribbean region: Puerto Rico
Associate(s)
Arthur, Joseph Charles (1850-1942)
Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858-1954)
Butters, Frederick King (1878-1945)
Holway, Mary Ellen (1872-1918) (co-collector, wife)
Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858-1954)
Butters, Frederick King (1878-1945)
Holway, Mary Ellen (1872-1918) (co-collector, wife)
Biography
American banker and mycologist. Edward W.D. Holway was born in Adrian, Michigan, and spent his boyhood years on a farm in northeastern Iowa. His studies in civil engineering were brought to an end by a severe illness, and after his convalescence he became a banker in Decorah, Iowa. He developed an interest in botany and built up an extensive collection and library, specialising in fungi. In 1904, after 35 years in banking, he decided to devote all his time to botanical research and travel. Retiring from the bank, he moved to Minneapolis, where he accepted the position of assistant professor of botany at the University of Minnesota, which he held until his death.
Holway was especially noted for his monographic studies on Mexican fungi and North American Uredineae. While still in banking, he had travelled and collected extensively in the United States and Mexico, primarily fungi but other plant groups as well. After his retirement, he visited Central America and Canada and made two long journeys in South America: the first along the western part of the continent, from Chile to Ecuador, and the second in eastern and southern Brazil. In his fifties he became an enthusiastic mountaineer and made a number of difficult climbing expeditions in the Canadian Rockies, the Caribou Range, and the Selkirks. He was a member of the American and the Canadian Alpine Clubs, the Botanical Society of America, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Society of Sigma Xi.
Sources:
F.K. Butters, 1924, "Edward W.D. Holway", Botanical Gazette, 77(1): 115-116.
Holway was especially noted for his monographic studies on Mexican fungi and North American Uredineae. While still in banking, he had travelled and collected extensively in the United States and Mexico, primarily fungi but other plant groups as well. After his retirement, he visited Central America and Canada and made two long journeys in South America: the first along the western part of the continent, from Chile to Ecuador, and the second in eastern and southern Brazil. In his fifties he became an enthusiastic mountaineer and made a number of difficult climbing expeditions in the Canadian Rockies, the Caribou Range, and the Selkirks. He was a member of the American and the Canadian Alpine Clubs, the Botanical Society of America, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Society of Sigma Xi.
Sources:
F.K. Butters, 1924, "Edward W.D. Holway", Botanical Gazette, 77(1): 115-116.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 280; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 54; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 32; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 42; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 28; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 42; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 283, 284; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 130;
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