Biography

American pteridologist and agriculturalist from Monroe, Wisconsin, born the son of the zoologist Herbert Edson Copeland (1849-1876). E.B. Copeland began creating his private herbarium in high school, collecting plants of Wisconsin. He was later educated at Stanford University and specialised in agricultural plants at Leipzig, Germany before gaining his PhD from the University of Halle (1896). He was variously appointed assistant professor of botany at the University of Indiana (1897-1898), professor of botany at the State Normal School, Chico, California (1898-1899), at the University of West Virginia (1899-1901) and instructor at Stanford University (1901-1903).

Copeland moved to the Philippines (1903) where he briefly joined the Bureau of Science in Manila as systematic botanist before becoming instructor of botany at the Philippine Normal School (1903-1907). He was appointed superintendent of the School of Agriculture from (1908-1910) and during this period founded and became professor and dean of the National Economic Garden, Los Baños, Laguna (1909-1917), now known as the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture at Los Baños. He was later appointed professor at the University of California (1928-1932) before returning to the Philippines as technical adviser for the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Manila, and director of the National Economic Garden, Los Baños (1932-1935) before retiring to Chico, California. He was succeeded at Los Baños by Charles Fuller Baker. After the Second World War, Copeland actively campaigned in the United States for aid to re-establish the college in the Philippines. He wrote a three-volume flora of the ferns of the Philippines and published on economic plants, particularly on pests and diseases of sugar cane and on the cultivation of rice. He is commemorated by a number of taxa including Alpinia copelandii Ridl. in the Zingiberaceae, Bulbophyllum copelandii Ames in the Orchidaceae, Goniothalamus copelandii Merr. in the Annonaceae and many pteridophytes.

Biography

American pteridologist and agriculturalist from Monroe, Wisconsin, born the son of the zoologist Herbert Edson Copeland (1849-1876). E.B. Copeland began creating his private herbarium in high school, collecting plants of Wisconsin. He was later educated at Stanford University and specialised in agricultural plants at Leipzig, Germany before gaining his PhD from the University of Halle (1896). He was variously appointed assistant professor of botany at the University of Indiana (1897-1898), professor of botany at the State Normal School, Chico, California (1898-1899), at the University of West Virginia (1899-1901) and instructor at Stanford University (1901-1903).

Copeland moved to the Philippines (1903) where he briefly joined the Bureau of Science in Manila as systematic botanist before becoming instructor of botany at the Philippine Normal School (1903-1907). He was appointed superintendent of the School of Agriculture from (1908-1910) and during this period founded and became professor and dean of the National Economic Garden, Los Baños, Laguna (1909-1917), now known as the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture at Los Baños. He was later appointed professor at the University of California (1928-1932) before returning to the Philippines as technical adviser for the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Manila, and director of the National Economic Garden, Los Baños (1932-1935) before retiring to Chico, California. He was succeeded at Los Baños by Charles Fuller Baker. After the Second World War, Copeland actively campaigned in the United States for aid to re-establish the college in the Philippines. He wrote a three-volume flora of the ferns of the Philippines and published on economic plants, particularly on pests and diseases of sugar cane and on the cultivation of rice. He is commemorated by a number of taxa including Alpinia copelandii Ridl. in the Zingiberaceae, Bulbophyllum copelandii Ames in the Orchidaceae, Goniothalamus copelandii Merr. in the Annonaceae and many pteridophytes.