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Baker, Milo Samuel (1868-1961)

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)
Milo Samuel
Last name
Baker
Initials
M.S.
Life Dates
1868 - 1961
Collecting Dates
1890 - 1954
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
NCC (main), UC (main), BM, CAS, GH, L, NMW, NY, OSC
Countries
Central American Continent: MexicoNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Clausen, Jens Christian (1891-1969) (co-author)
Greene, Edward Lee (1843-1915) (specimens to)
Nutting, Franklin P. (fl. 1894) (co-collector)
Smith, Harrison (fl. 1937) (co-collector)
Biography
American schoolteacher, farmer and botanist, born at Strawberry Point, Iowa who moved to California with his family (1875). Milo Baker collected plants as an amateur enthusiast and corresponded with E.L. Greene, later gaining a degree at the University of California. He subsequently resigned his educational post and became botanist at Santa Rosa Junior College (1922-1947). Baker was curator of the North Coast Herbarium (now at California State College, Sonoma) even after his retirement, and was recognized as an authority of the genus Viola. He was also elected President of the California Botanical Society (1952). The Baker cypress, Cupressus bakeri Jeps., commemorates his early discovery in Modoc County, California (1898).
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 43; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 14; Holmgren, P., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.C., Index Herb., ed. 8 (1990): 358; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 5; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 50;
Baker, Milo Samuel (1868-1961)
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