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Boyle, William Sidney (1915-1999)

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)
William Sidney
Last name
Boyle
Initials
W.S.
Life Dates
1915 -
Collecting Dates
1936 - 1952
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM, NY, UC, UTC
Countries
North American region: United States
Associate(s)
Holmgren, Arthur Hermann (1912-1992) (co-collector)
Biography
American botanist interested in the grasses and particularly the genus Melica L. Born in Provo, Utah, William S. Boyle was the son of the principal at Brigham Young High School in Provo which the son attended and graduated from in 1933. Later he studied at the University of California and produced a cyto-taxonomic study of North American Melica species for a PhD thesis. This thesis was published in Madroño in 1945. By 1963 Boyle was working for the State University of Utah in Logan and continued to study cytology, experimental evolution and Melica species, describing several new varieties and a new section within this genus. In 1973 Boyle published the text book Laboratory Manual for Elementary Botany and he was married to Rowena Christensen.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 81; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 91;
Boyle, William Sidney (1915-1999)
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